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EURIPIDES.
Polymestor.
Thyself shalt climb the ship's mast with thy feet.
Hecuba.
So?—and with shoulders winged, or in what guise?
Polymestor.
A dog with fire-red eyes shalt thou become.1265
Hecuba.
How know'st thou of the changing of my shape?
Polymestor.
This Dionysus told, the Thracian seer.
Hecuba.
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But nought foretold to thee of these thine ills?
Polymestor.
Nay; else with guile thou ne'er hadst trapped me thus.
Hecuba.
There shall I die, or live my full life out?1270
Polymestor.
Die shalt thou: and thy grave shall bear a name—
Hecuba.
Accordant to my shape?—or what wilt say?
Polymestor.
The wretched Dog's Grave, sign to seafarers.
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