HECUBA Awakening:

"Lift thy head, unhappy lady, from the ground; thy neck upraise;

this is Troy no more, no longer am I queen in Ilium.

Though fortune change, endure thy lot;

sail with the stream, and follow fortune's tack,

steer not thy barque of life against the tide,

since chance must guide thy course.

Ah me! ah me! What else but tears is now my hapless lot,

whose country, children, husband, all are lost?

Ah! the high-blown pride of ancestors!

how cabined now how brought to nothing after all." 

Eurypides

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