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EURIPIDES.

Wherefore I come aforetime known to thee,
Talthybius, with new tidings for thine ear.


Hecuba.

It is come, friends—that which hath laid upon me
Long fear as a haunting spell! 240


Talthybius.

Your lots are cast—if this thing was your fear


Hecuba.

Woe!—of what city in Thessaly,
Or in Kadmus' land, dost thou tell?


Talthybius.

Ye have fallen each to her lord, not altogether.


Hecuba.

Unto whom hath each been allotted?—for whom 245
Of Troy's dames waiteth a happy doom?


Talthybius.

I know:—but ask of each, not all as one.


Hecuba.

But my daughter—who winneth her for a prey,
Kassandra the misery-bowed? O say!


Talthybius.

King Agamemnon's chosen prize is she. 250

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