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Hector came into the city by the Scean gates, and as he went wives / and mothers crowded about him, asking how it had fared with their / husbands and sons. But he said naught, save to bid them pray; and / indeed there was sore news for many, if he had told that which he / knew. Then he came to the palace of King Priam, and there he saw / Hecuba, his mother, and with her Laodice, fairest of her daughters. / She caught him by the hand and said: --
/ An-drom'-a-che. Sce'-an. Hec'-u-ba.