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Quotation from The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
“Death cannot be what Life is, Child; the cup Of Death is empty, and Life hath always hope.”
The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, Andromache scene, trans. Gilbert Murray (1905)
Hecuba answers Andromache's claim that the dead Polyxena is happier than the living.
Citation: "Death cannot be what Life is, Child; the cup Of Death is empty, and Life hath always hope." — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays, The Trojan Women, Andromache scene, trans. Gilbert Murray (1905). (id euripides-trojan-women-and-other-plays-q2)
Virtues: Hope
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
