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Andromache

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An·drom·a·che  (n-drm-k)
n. Greek Mythology
The wife of Hector, captured by the Greeks at the fall of Troy.


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Seeing, then, that she was not within, he stood on the threshold of the women's rooms and said, "Women, tell me, and tell me true, where did Andromache go when she left the house?
It argues a certain hardness, or at any rate dislike of the "Iliad" on the part of the writer of the "Odyssey," that she should have adopted Hector's farewell to Andromache here, as elsewhere in the poem, for a scene of such inferior pathos.
 
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