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Andromache
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Here am I, hands bloodied with the tight bonds about them, being sent down to death. Boy
sung
Mother, o mother, under [505] your wing I go down as well. Andromache
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This is a cruel sacrifice, o rulers of Phthia! Boy
sung
Father, come and help those you love. Andromache
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[510] Dear child, you will lie below dead with your dead mother, next to her breast. Boy
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Oh me! What will become of me? Unhappy are we, you and I, mother.
Euripides. Euripides, with an English translation by David Kovacs. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. forthcoming.
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