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grandson beinar thrown neck and heels from a high 



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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 appearance of woman, she became 

 a bitch, 



" Perclidit infelix, hominis post omnia formam," 



and rent the heavens with her howlings, 



" Externasque novo latratu terruit auras." 



Then, becoming distracted with the remembrance 

 of her misfortunes, "veterum memor ilia malo- 

 rum," she took off howling into the fields of 

 Thrace, 



"Turn quoque Sithonios, ululavit moesta 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 Hecubara 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 world, rather than live to become servant- 

 maid to old Grecian ladies: 



" Non ego Myrmidonum st-des, Dolopumve superbas, 

 Adspiciam, aut Graiis servitum matribus ibo." 



At some future period, should a foreign armed 



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