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838 Euripides [1254-1269]<br />

HECUBA<br />

Is it not just for thy atrocious crime?<br />

POLYMESTOR<br />

Ah, my children! ah, my blinded eyes! woe is me!<br />

HECUBA<br />

Dost thou grieve? what of me? thinkst thou I grieve not for my son?<br />

POLYMESTOR<br />

Thou wicked wretch! thy delight is in mocking me.<br />

HECUBA<br />

I am avenged on thee; have I not cause for joy?<br />

POLYMESTOR<br />

The joy will soon cease, in the day when ocean's flood—<br />

HECUBA<br />

Shall convey me to the shores of Hellas?<br />

POLYMESTOR<br />

Nay, but close o'er thee when thou fallest from the masthead.<br />

HECUBA<br />

Who will force me to take the leap?<br />

POLYMESTOR<br />

Of thy own accord wilt thou climb the ship's mast.<br />

HECUBA<br />

With wings upon my back, or by what means?<br />

POLYMESTOR<br />

Thou wilt become a dog with bloodshot eyes.<br />

HECUBA<br />

How knowest thou of my transformation?<br />

POLYMESTOR<br />

Dionysus, our Thracian prophet, told me so.<br />

HECUBA<br />

And did he tell thee nothing of thy present trouble?<br />

POLYMESTOR<br />

No; else hadst thou never caught me thus by guile.

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