Hecuba (n.)
wife of Priam, King of Troy, and mother of 18 children; after the Greeks took Troy, she saw her sons and her husband killed, and was sent into slavery.
Cor I.iii.41[Volumnia to Virgilia] The breasts of Hecuba, / When she did suckle Hector
Cym IV.ii.313[Innogen alone] All curses madded Hecuba gave the Greeks
Luc.1447[Lucrece, looking at a painting] despairing Hecuba beheld
Tit IV.i.20[Young Lucius to Marcus] I have read that Hecuba of Troy / Ran mad for sorrow
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