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Quotation from The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
“willingly I die, let no man Confine these arms, I with undaunted breast Will meet the stroke.”
The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Hecuba, Talthybius's report of the sacrifice, trans. Michael Wodhull (1782)
The herald tells Hecuba how her daughter asked the Greek soldiers to let her go to death unbound, as one born free.
Citation: "willingly I die, let no man Confine these arms, I with undaunted breast Will meet the stroke." — Euripides, The Trojan Women and Other Plays, Hecuba, Talthybius's report of the sacrifice, trans. Michael Wodhull (1782). (id euripides-trojan-women-and-other-plays-q7)
Virtues: Fortitude
Portrait: Euripides Pio-Clementino Inv302, Marie-Lan Nguyen, Public domain.
