Hecuba, Orestes, and The Phoenician Women

of the art of prophecy original: "mantikēs"... of the one in a Corybantic frenzy The Corybantes were dancers who worshipped the goddess Cybele with loud music and ecstatic dancing; this refers to a state of divine madness. endurance
Why, why does the Bacchic pole A reference to the thyrsus or the ecstatic state associated with Dionysus. hold me up?
ornament
the white-winged [ones] stretched out.
the sacrifices that they will give later; for the poets say that Athena...
but we did not learn what the sacrifices were. not?
it is useful
I pursue the messengers of your [sufferings].
they gathered or they collected
He touches the strings of the tent; he seized her.
From the pleonastic using more words than necessary for effect use of "tu," as it is said, just as a builder is [called] such because...

dishonored
the ship-owner's tomb crowns me
fiery
with a fresh eye. And you do the deeds of sisters
no longer living
the head of the bed of gloom Refers to the darkness of death or the grave.
related to the liver all honor
to place the craftwork in front.
naval robes stripping bare of the sea
hasten the slaves during the voyage
you have not yet come holding the chain
your child is equal, before you [she is] a noble-minded child original: "kelophron" likely a corruption of "ephron" or similar.
the orator the one who fights with words, speaking
he grows weary, and the speech through which you hold
the son of Laertes, Odysseus his
The son of Laertes persuades the army
for [he is] a noble man
not to subdue the most hateful of all referring to the ghost of Achilles or the demand for blood.
of Achilles to look askance or neglect
the sacrifices of slaves seem empty to me.
prayers; entreaties against the slaughter
lest someone goes to the side of Persephone The queen of the Underworld.
from the death, the good fortune
having come to the tomb,
where separation friendship
how ungrateful the Danaans The Greeks. are, having been subdued
to those who are thriving to the noble-born
by those who have died on behalf of the Greeks,
to the spectacle from the
from what life they have despaired.
stripping bare not yet having rushed for the slaughter
or those who have come, as much as you do not know he leads me by force