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[Great Note] I am accustomed Is it not clear to you that I have lacked— to where, to where [does it lead], the emptiness of [their] advice?
they might speak, but they do not act; [they are] my advisors. praises of the cause
[Question] concerning the shame Take heart; you have not escaped the providence of fortune. that is, of all the shame or rather, concerning that which is fated
For there is no one who is not accustomed to leave the path. I am not accustomed certainly?
with the mouth You speak, my child, those things which to the gods in parallel.
[Question] But by dying, you might perhaps be more fortunate.
Hecuba: the tomb Or [if] I live: for to live basely is a great hardship. greatly painful
furthermore, an idiom of the heart
Chorus: A strange and distinct character among mortals
among us is to be born of noble stock, and it goes even further— increase
the name of nobility for those who are worthy of it. to bear their endurance
[Rule] the naval force Not everyone [is like] Helen, oh father; but oh child, and you, the hanging, but after it is clear that which is set before they speak of Helen
be bold, toward him; if it is necessary for you [to have] more. in the same [way]
In time, the child breathes and I alone plant [her].
[Spare] us, but do not kill her.
Tyndareus' daughter original: "Tyndarion." A reference to Helen of Troy, the daughter of Tyndareus, whose beauty caused the Trojan War. You will destroy us ourselves at the funeral pyre.
Stab me; do not spare me; I follow the path. to kill then indeed on the one hand, but alone
He who killed the child of Thetis original: "paidas thetidos." This refers to Achilles, the son of the sea-nymph Thetis, who was killed by Paris's arrow. by shooting with arrows.
Odysseus: Therefore having died toward her, that which is for the beloved ones, that which brings... her himself Do not then go forward to die miserably.
[Manifest] Not these things; but he requested her. and
Achilles: Do not murder my daughter.
And because of the abundance, he will become poor.