Hecuba

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. II. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1891.

  1. Where did he place him apart from the sons he then had?
Hecuba
  1. In this very land, where his corpse was found.
Agamemnon
  1. With Polymestor, the king of this country?
Hecuba
  1. He was sent here in charge of gold, most bitter trust!
Agamemnon
  1. By whom was he slain? What death overtook him?
Hecuba
  1. By whom but this man? His Thracian host slew him.
Agamemnon
  1. The wretch! could he have been so eager for the gold?
Hecuba
  1. Just so, when he heard of the Phrygians’ disaster.
Agamemnon
  1. Where did you find him? or did some one bring his corpse?
Hecuba
  1. This woman, who happened upon it on the sea-shore.