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lived long. He must have died broken-hearted. 

 He would have seen his son-in-law, once master 

 of a noble stud, now, for want of a horse, obliged 

 to carry off his father, up hill, on his own back, 

 ''cessi et sublato, montem genitore petivi." He 

 would have heard of his grandson being thrown 

 neck and heels from a high tower, ''mittitur 

 Astyanax illis de turribus. ' ' He would have been 

 informed of his wife tearing out the eyes of king 

 Odrysius with her finger nails, ' ' digitos in perfida 

 lumina condit." Soon after this, losing all ap- 

 pearance of woman, she became a bitch, 



"Perdidit infelix, hominis post omnia formam," 



and rent the heavens with her bowlings, 



* ' Externasque novo latratu terruit auras." 



Then, becoming distracted with the remembrance 

 of her misfortunes, "veterum memor ilia ma- 

 lorum,'* she took off howling into the fields of 

 Thrace, — 



"Turn quoque Sithonios, ululavit mcesta per agros." 



Juno, Jove's wife and sister, was heard to declare, 

 that poor Hecuba did not deserve so terrible a 

 fate, — 



"Ipsa Jovis conjuxque sororque, 

 Eventus Hecubam meruisse negaverit illos." 



Had poor Priam escaped from Troy, one thing, 

 and only one thing, would have given him a small 

 ray of satisfaction, viz., he would have heard of 

 one of his daughters nobly preferring to leave this 



