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EURIPIDES.
Hecuba.
No—no! Avenge me of mine adversary,
And I will welcome lifelong bondage then.
Agamemnon.
But to what championship dost summon me?
Hecuba.
To nought of all whereof thou dreamest, king.
Seest thou this corpse, for which my tears rain down?760
Agamemnon.
I see,—yet what shall come I cannot tell.
Hecuba.
Him once I bare, and carried 'neath my zone.
Agamemnon.
One of thy sons is this, O sorrow-crushed?
Hecuba.
Nay, not of Priam's sons by Ilium slain.
Agamemnon.
How? didst thou bear another more than these?765
Hecuba.
Yea—to my grief, meseems: thou seest him here.
Agamemnon.
Yet where was he what time the city fell?
