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Andromache enters the camp where Hecuba, her mother-in-law, is residing. The city of Troy has been sacked and their husbands have been killed. Andromache is now left alone with her toddler son, Astyanax. She joins Hecuba to lament their sorrowful fate. The two women mourn together, terrified about what their future now holds. They know that they will be taken as slaves by the victorious Greek warriors and can only cling on to the memory of their former, happy lives..
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HECUBA Whither art thou borne, unhappy wife, mounted on that car, side by side with Hector's brazen arms and Phrygian spoils of war, with which Achilles' son will deck the shrines of Phthia on his return from Troy?
ANDROMACHE My Achaean masters drag me hence.
HECUBA Woe is thee!
ANDROMACHE Why dost thou in note of woe utter the dirge that is mine?
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