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The Hecuba, Medea, Ph?nissę, and Orestes, of Euripides, Literally Transl. to Which Are Added Critical Notes
The Hecuba Medea Phniss and Orestes of Euripides Literally Transl to Which Are Added Critical Notes Author:Euripides General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1846 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: ANOTHER ARGUMENT. After the siege of Ilium, the Greeks pat in at the Chersonese, opposite the Troad ; and Achilles, appearing by night, demanded that one of the daughters of Priam should be sacrificed. The Greeks, therefore, respecting the commands of the hero, tore Polyxena away from Hecuba and sacriBced her ; and Polymestor, king of the Thracians, murdered Polydorus, one of Priam's sons. Now Polymestor had received him from Priam, in charge, with a treasure of money. But when the city was taken, wishing to keep possession of his wealth, be set about to murder him, and cared little for friendship in calamity. The body was cast out into the sea : the waves washed it ashore near the tents of the female captives; and Hecuba, seeing the corpse, recognised it; and communicating her intention to Agamemnon, she sent for Polymestor to come to her with his children (concealing what had occurred), pretending she would point out to him certain treasures that were in Ilium ; but when he arrived, his sons she murdered, and himself she deprived of his eyes. And defending herself before the Greeks, she came off victorious over her accuser ; for she was decided not to have instigated the atrocity, but to have requited the instigator. chapter{Section 4 HECUBA. SHADE OF POLYDOKUS. 1 -- 15.] I Am here, having left the hidden abode of the dead, and the gates of darkness, where Hades dwells apart from the gods, -- I, Polydorus, who am the son of Hecuba, daughter of Cisseus, and of Priam my father, who, when the danger of falling before a Grecian spear encompassed the city of the Phrygians, in fear sent me forth secret...« less