WANDERINGS IN 
248 
FOURTH 
JOURNEY, 
lie could not have 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, u mittitur 
Astyanax illis de turribus.” He would have been 
informed of his wife tearing out the eyes of king 
Odrysius with her finger nails, u digitos in perfida 
lumina condit.” Soon after this, losing all appear¬ 
ance of woman, she became a bitch, 
“ Perdidit infelix, liominis 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 o ff 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 Heeubam 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 sedes, Dolopumve superbas, 
Adspiciam, aut Graiis servitum matribus ibo.” 
