Stasimon 2
[Episode]
Hecuba, do you see Andromache advancing here on a foreign chariot?
Chorus Leader
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,
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with which Achilles’ son will deck the shrines of Phthia on his return from Troy?
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[Episode 1]
My Achaean masters are leading me away.
Andromache
Why do you in note of woe utter the dirge that is mine?
Andromache
For these sorrows—
Andromache
And for this calamity.
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Andromache
Our day is past.
Hecuba
Joy is gone, Troy is gone.
Hecuba
For my gallant sons
Hecuba
Alas indeed, for my
Hecuba
Piteous the fate
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