Chorus Leader
Alas! for your unhappy mother, who over your corpse has closed the high hopes of her life! Born of a noble stock, counted most happy in your lot,
ah! what a tragic death is yours! Ha! who are those I see on yonder pinnacles darting to and fro with flaming torches in their hands? Some new calamity wiII soon alight on
Troy
.
1255
Soldiers are seen on the battlements of
Troy
, torch in hand.
The Trojan Women. Euripides. Edward P. Coleridge (Translator). London. 1906.
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