Saw where among a hundred daughters, stood / pale Hecuba, saw Priam's life-blood stain / the fires his hands had hallowed in the fane.
Source: tatoeba (6843337)
Hecuba
/ˈhɛkjʊbə/
Synonyms for "hecuba" (8 found)
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Noun(2 words)
archetypal mournerliterary figure
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Noun(2 words)
maternal archetypemythic queen
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Noun(4 words)
queen of troyroyal mothertragic mothertrojan queen
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3 total sentences available.
Here, with her hundred daughters, pale with dread, / poor Hecuba and all her female train, / as doves, that from the low'ring storm have fled, / and cower for shelter from the pelting rain, / crouch round the silent gods, and cling to them in vain.
Source: tatoeba (6844098)
Priam was married to Hecuba, daughter of Dymas, king of Thrace; and among the most celebrated of their children were the renowned and valiant Hector, the prophetess Cassandra, and Paris, the cause of the Trojan war.
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