Grieve me so much as thine, when some mailed Greek

Shall lead thee weeping hence, and take from thee

Thy day of freedom. Thou in Argos then

Shalt, at another’s bidding, ply the loom,

And from the fountain of Messeis draw

Water, or from the Hypereian spring,

Constrained, unwilling try thy cruel lot.

And then shall some one say who sees thee weep,

“This was the wife of Hector, most renowned

Of the horse-taming Trojans, when they fought