Saw where among a hundred daughters, stood / pale Hecuba, saw Priam's life-blood stain / the fires his hands had hallowed in the fane.
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Hecuba
//ˈhɛkjʊbə//
Synonyms for "hecuba"
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Translations
16 translations across 11 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- Ἑκάβη name (the wife of King Priam)
Armenian
2 entries- Հեկուբ name (the wife of King Priam)
- Հեկուբե name (the wife of King Priam)
French
1 entries- Hécube name (the wife of King Priam)
German
2 entries- Hekabe name (the wife of King Priam)
- Hekuba name (the wife of King Priam)
Greek
1 entries- Εκάβη name (the wife of King Priam)
Italian
2 entries- Ecabe name (the wife of King Priam)
- Ecuba name (the wife of King Priam)
Latin
2 entries- Hecuba name (the wife of King Priam)
- Hecubē name (the wife of King Priam)
Portuguese
1 entries- Hécuba name (the wife of King Priam)
Russian
2 entries- Гека́ба name (the wife of King Priam)
- Геку́ба name (the wife of King Priam)
Spanish
1 entries- Hécuba name (the wife of King Priam)
Swedish
1 entries- Hekabe name (the wife of King Priam)
Sample sentences
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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.
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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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