The Trojan Women

Euripides

Euripides. The Plays of Euripides, Translated into English Prose from the Text of Paley. Vol. I. Coleridge, Edward P., translator. London: George Bell and Sons, 1906.

  1. Ah, kind friends, it has come! what I so long have dreaded.
Talthybius
  1. The lot has decided your fates already, if that was what you feared.
Hecuba
  1. Ah me! What city did you say, Thessalian, Phthian, or Cadmean?
Talthybius
  1. Each warrior took his prize in turn; you were not all at once assigned.
Hecuba
  1. To whom has the lot assigned us severally? Which of us Trojan women
  2. does a happy fortune await?
Talthybius
  1. I know, but ask your questions separately, not all at once.
Hecuba
  1. Then tell me, whose prize is my daughter, hapless Cassandra?