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Messeis

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Messeis
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AndromacheCharacter1 observation
·Hypothetical

Hector imagines Andromache fetching water at Messeis as one alternative of her captivity.

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“It may be that you will have to ply the loom in Argos at the bidding of a mistress, or to fetch water from the springs Messeis or Hypereia, treated brutally by some cruel task-master”

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·Hypothetical

Hector imagines Messeis as a spring from which enslaved Andromache may be forced to fetch water.

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“to fetch water from the springs Messeis or Hypereia, treated brutally by some cruel task-master”

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·Hypothetical
“the springs Messeis or Hypereia”

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Book 6 · Passage 30

And Hector answered, ‘Wife, I too have thought upon all this, but with what face should I look upon the Trojans, men or women, if I shirked battle like a coward? I cannot do so: I know nothing save to fight bravely in the forefront of the Trojan host and win renown alike for my father and myself. Well do I know that the day will surely come when mighty Ilius shall be destroyed with Priam and Priam’s people, but I grieve for none of these—not even for Hecuba, nor King Priam, nor for my brothers many and brave who may fall in the dust before their foes—for none of these do I grieve as for yourself when the day shall come on which some one of the Achaeans shall rob you for ever of your freedom, and bear you weeping away. It may be that you will have to ply the loom in Argos at the bidding of a mistress, or to fetch water from the springs Messeis or Hypereia, treated brutally by some cruel task-master; then will one say who sees you weeping, ‘She was wife to Hector, the bravest warrior among the Trojans during the war before Ilius.’ On this your tears will break forth anew for him who would have put away the day of captivity from you. May I lie dead under the barrow that is heaped over my body ere I hear your cry as they carry you into bondage.’