My spirit animates these limbs.—To thine appeal
A brief reply. I did not hope to leave thy shores
By stealth—believe it or not—nor yet a husbands’ name
Have I desired, nor have I claimed the marriage bonds.
If under omens of my own it were ordained
That I should live, and lay aside at will the weight
Of destiny, then first of all would I restore
My Trojan city and the dear remains of all
I called my own; old Priam’s royal halls would still
Endure, and long ago would I have built again