Hecuba, Orestes, and The Phoenician Women

The Elder (The Herald)

I was allotted and they commanded they ordered
a slave being driven out from the city being expelled
either by the sweep of the sword or by the motion and the herald
of the land of Ilium of the Troad forever territory
or supportively
hunted by the spear by war having been taken by the Achaeans by the Greeks
in no way never, not at all lightening relieving the sufferings of the pains
having taken up having placed upon herself the weight burden of the news of the information
To you, woman O Hecuba, I come as a herald I have come together toward with you you and and
having been filled and all
for in the full assembly gathering of the Achaeans Greeks
it is rumored to have been decided the daughter
it is said it was decided that your child be slaughtered sacrificed
sacrifice to see of the tomb
look upon the sacrifice; having ascended the tomb; having gone up
on which they spoke with golden statues
where they spoke suggested adorned clothed with golden objects gold
or then of all the sailing of the ships; but others were fighting on foot
where perhaps to sail you [on] rafts; the ships
persuading the minds to strife... the inductions
you might leave somehow to the children since it seemed even to me
and these things for death; he will indeed subdue
or flowing underneath
if he looked upon your tomb
to lead away to bear the refusal of the meats
in
a great wave surge of strife fell together n- The scribe likely began the word "neikos" (strife) before stopping.
or impulse or it surged or uproar
the opinion went divided indeed without you not...
upward or of those leaning away
and the favor which to some seemed it would seem
a sacrifice for the tomb; but to others not seeming [right]
or or up- against those making war
there was the spoken wave absent