1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...
1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...
1 EURIPIDES' TROJAN WOMEN PREFACE, TRANSLATION, and ...
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Bloody corpses lie next to<br />
The goddess Athena,<br />
And Troy now wears the yoke of slavery. 600<br />
Oh my city, my city lost…<br />
Ab<strong>and</strong>oned, I weep for you.<br />
Now you face a miserable end.<br />
The home where I bore my children.<br />
Hecuba<br />
Andromache<br />
Hecuba<br />
Andromache<br />
Hecuba<br />
Oh children! Your mother who has lost her city<br />
Is losing you too!<br />
What cries, what sorrow,<br />
What tears shed on tears,<br />
For my home lost.<br />
At least our dead are free from pain.<br />
Chorus<br />
Tears <strong>and</strong> songs of sorrow sung by the muse of suffering<br />
Are sweet salves for those who suffer bitterness.<br />
Andromache<br />
Oh mother of him whose spear brought destruction<br />
On the Greeks, do you see what we suffer?<br />
Hecuba<br />
I see the h<strong>and</strong> of the gods: they raise to the heights those<br />
Who are nothing, but those on top, they bring down.<br />
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