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THE LIONESS AND THE SHE-BEAR
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Those are the words that are for ever in the mouths of us all.
Unhappy human kind, let this address itself to you, I hear nothing but the echoing murmur of trifling complaints. Whoever, in like case, believes himself the hated of the gods, let him consider Hecuba, [1] and he will render thanks for their clemency.
- ↑ Hecuba was the wife of Priam, King of Troy. When that city fell Hecuba was chosen by Ulysses as part of his share in the spoils. She was changed into a dog for avenging the death of her son whose eyes had been put out by the King of Thracia, and she finally ended her life by casting herself into the sea.
