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Woe is me! Ho! my Thracian spearmen, armed, [1090] a race of knights whom Ares inspires! Ho! Achaeans! sons of Atreus! To you I loudly call; come here, by the gods! Does any one hearken, or will no one help me? Why do you delay? Women, captive women have destroyed me. [1095] A fearful fate is mine; ah me! my hideous outrage! Where can I turn or go? [1100] Shall I take wings and soar aloft to the mansions of the sky, where Orion and Sirius dart from their eyes [1105] a flash as of fire, or shall I, in my misery, plunge to Hades' murky flood?
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Hecuba, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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