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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.
Andromache [ænˈdrɒməkɪ]
n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) Greek myth the wife of Hector
Translations
Andromache [ænˈdrɒməkɪ] N → Andrómaca
Andromache [ænˈdrɒməkɪ] n → Andromaca
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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?
The Iliad by Homer View in context
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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