| Then Hecuba came to them all sorrowful, with a golden goblet of wine in her right hand, that they might make a drink-offering before they set out. |
| His wife, however, Hecuba, begged and entreated him to desist. |
| Priam his father has failed to move him with his chiliastic visions of his own terrible end, so Hecuba takes up the thread. |
| We did not see this latter-day Hecuba, but we were told that she was still quite comely. |
| But there was such laughing! Queen Hecuba laugh'd that her eyes ran o'er. |
| Paris was the son of Priam, king of Troy, and his wife Hecuba. |
