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. Hecuba, do you see Andromache advancing here on a foreign chariot?
  2. and with her, clasped to her throbbing breast, is her dear Astyanax, Hector’s child. Where are you being carried, unhappy wife, mounted on that chariot, side by side with Hector’s brazen arms and Phrygian spoils of war,
  3. with which Achilles’ son will deck the shrines of Phthia on his return from Troy?
Andromache
  1. My Achaean masters are leading me away.
Hecuba
  1. Ah me!
Andromache
  1. Why do you in note of woe utter the dirge that is mine?
Hecuba
  1. Alas—
Andromache
  1. For these sorrows—