PARTING OF HECTOR AND ANDROMACHE.

“Hector left in haste

The mansion, and retraced his way between

The rows of stately dwellings, traversing

The mighty city. When at length he reached

The Scæan gates, that issue on the field,

His spouse, the nobly dowered Andromache,

Came forth to meet him—daughter of the prince

Eëtion, who, among the woody slopes

Of Placos, in the Hypoplacian town