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t, ring ti sing to Hecuba that the Greela in Conclave have resolve to grant the demand of Achilles, an to sacrifice Polyxena at his tomb and that Odysseus is coming to drag

to Corne ut frΟIn the tent.

ll. 178 ff. Enter Polyxena Hecuba teli her of her ini-

StaVe to Peloponnese Phthia, Delos, Atheni They be vallthei late in excitan in Asia sor Europe. Secon ἐπεισόδιον it. 484-628. Talthybius, erat of the

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ll. 638 ff. The attendant sent 3 Heculba has found the

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it. II 32 T. Polymestor argues iat his murder of Polydoriis vas for the benefit o Thracians and Greelis, and describes the rias by vhicla the vomen blinde lain andidissed his Chil iren. ll. II 87is Hecuba retoris inat hie nurdere Polydorias

an Polyinestor. Similarly the lose of me feria is dis- figured by a iurans te bet vee JaSon an Medea, vilio prophiesies me manne of his deati a Polymestor prophie sies the death of Hecuba aster her metamorphosi S. But theintroductio of this Totesque delat is characteristi ofEuripides in thiis respect hiat he osten Connecis iis tot s illi sonae locat institution or name, as here the transformationi Hecuba is connected vitii the Κυνὸς Σῆμα, the moπ's Grave, the nam os a promontor on ine Thiraci an Chiersone se se Thucyclides Vili. O4-6).

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Agamemnon IIO9st ). his refleCis the Spirit of the contenaporarn sophi sis,' ut harinonige ill vitia the characterso the epi legend. A ainst an desect may be et a SSages vlai Cla avea Charin peculiar o Euripide S. Perhaps the sineSt, andulos cistinctive, of these areolae descriptionis the sacrifice

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in the origina Play. But et there is nother imit catio that in date of the caua is bout 425 . . For the line 455-65 reser to the festiva o me Delia, vilicii vas restored by thens vitii great magnificen C in that ea after the purification os Delos se Thucydides iti Io4), an in re renc ivouae be

illustrates the description o Talthybius Η. 32 st ). Thescen in vilicia Polymestor, aster hein blindeci, Comes Stag emno out of the tent, i apparent ly the SubJect of

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Troatanant of tho Stor in thor Posia. Ennius ivrote a play Heracta, a sex fragments of vhicla arepreserves'. of these, onerat eas appears o bes unde on Euripides se the note on l. 293). The transformation os Hecuba into aio made the sulfeci tu table so the Metamorfhoses of Ovid, via has treate in Sacrifice of Polyxena, a vel a the inurder of Polydonas an me vengeance of Hecuba Meram. 3. 429-373). A ei lines of Ovid, vilichiin a parallel in Euripides, are quote in the notes See

T vo referen Ces to the stor os Polydoriis in Polymestor ima be quote in Conclusion : Hunc Polydorum auri quondam una pondere magno Infelix manius furtim 'anda rat A lendum Threicio regi, una iam diffideret armi SDardaniae cingique Gena olbsidione videret. Ille, ut opes fractae Teucrum et Fortuna reCeSSit,

Fas omne abrumpit, Polydorum obtruncat, et auro Vi potitur Quid non mortalia e Ctora Ogi S, Auri sacra sanaeSi

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HECUBA

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ΥΠΟΘΕΣΙΣ.

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DRAVATIS PERSONAE

Η κω νεκρῶν κευθμῶνα καί σκστω πυλας

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ΥΠΟΘΕΣΙΣ.

Mετὰ την λίου πολιορκίαν οἱ μὲν Ελληνες εις τὶ iv ντιπέραν ρωάδος ερρόνησον καθωρμίσθησαν 'Aχιλλεῖς δὲ νυκτος ὁραθῶς σφαγηναι ξίου μία των Πριάμου θυγατέρων οἱ μεν ουν Ελληνες τιμωντες τονε ρω ΙΠολυξένην ποσπάσαντες κάβης σφαγίασαν

Πολυμηστωρ δε ὁ ων Θρακων aσιλευς ε να των ΙΠριαμιδων Πολυδωροὶ κατέσφαξεν εἰληφε δε τουτον παρὰ του Πριάμου ὁ Πολυμηστωρ εις παρακαταθηκην μετὰ χρημάτων. ἁλουσης δε πῆ πόλεως, Ἀaτασχεῖν io αὐτο βουλόμενος το πλουτον φονεύειν ωρμησε, και φιλίας δυστυχους λιγωρησεν. εκριφέντος δε του σώματος εἰς την θάλaσσαν το κλυδώνιον πρὸς aς των ἰχμαλωτίδων σκηνὰς υτον ξέβαλεν Εκάβη δε

- ἐνίκησεν. εκρίθη γαρ υκ ἄρ ειν μότητος, ὰλλ'