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illis de turribus." He would have been informed of liis 

 wife tearing out the eyes of king Odrysius with her finger 

 nails, "digitos in perfida lamina condit." Soon after 

 this, losing all appearance of woman, she became a bitch, 



"Perdidit infelix, hoininis 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 malorum," 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 Hecubam meruisse negaverit iUos."- 



Had poor Priam escaped from Troy, one thing, and only 

 one thing, would have given him a small ray of satisfac- 

 tion, 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 sedes, Doloptimve superbas, 

 Adspioiam, aut Graiis servitum matribus ibo." 



At some future period, should a foreign armed force, or in- 

 testine broils, (all which heaven avert,) raise Troy to the 

 dignity of a fortified city, Virgil's prophecy may then be 

 fulfilled, 



" Atque iterum ad Trojam magnus mittetur Achilles." 



After leaving Troy, I passed through a fine country to 

 Albany ; and then proceeded by steam down the Hudson 

 to New York. 



