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Chorus
And I was braiding my tresses beneath a tight-drawn head-band [925] before my golden mirror's countless rays, so that I might lie down to rest; when through the city rose a din, and a cry went ringing down the streets of Troy: “You [930] sons of Hellas, when, oh! when will you sack the citadel of Ilium, and seek your homes?”
Euripides. The Complete Greek Drama, edited by Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill, Jr. in two volumes. 1. Hecuba, translated by E. P. Coleridge. New York. Random House. 1938.
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