Ἕξτορος ἥδε γυνή, ὅς ἀριστεύεσκε μάχεσθαι
Τρώων ἱπποδάμων, ὅτε Ἴλιον ἀμφεμάχοντο.
Ὥς ποτέ τις ἐρέει· σοὶ δ’ αὖ νέον ἔσσεται ἄλγος
Χήτεϊ τοιοῦδ’ ἀνδρός, ἀμύνειν _δούλιον_ ἧμαρ.
We should be happy to see the exquisite tenderness of the original
transferred into English. We offer:—“This is the wife of Hector, the
bravest of the horse-taming Trojans, when our people fought about Ilion.
Thus perchance some one will say: and this will be to thee a fresh
sorrow, to feel the want of thy husband to ward off the day of slavery.”