so impatient was she, and insatiate with the calamities of another.
Now if the Goddess was really thus choleric and vindictive and so
highly incensed with bad language, and if she had not the wisdom to
smile at human frailty and ignorance, but suffered herself to be thus
transported with passion, I much marvel she did not shoot them too
that told this cruel story of her, and charged her both in speech and
writing with so much spleen and rancor. We oft accuse Queen Hecuba of
barbarous and savage bitterness, for having once said in Homer,—