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Date "HECUBA" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
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Literature | Hecuba Second wife of Priam, and mother of nineteen children. When Troy was taken by the Greeks she fell to the lot of Ulysses. She was afterwards metamorphosed into a dog, and threw herself into the sea. The place where she perished was afterwards called the Dog's - grave (cynos-sema). (Homer: Iliad, etc.) On to Hecuba. To the point or main incident. The story of Hecuba has furnished a host of Greek tragedies. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
With her husband, King Priam, Hecuba had fifty children including Creusa, Hector, Antiphus, Deiphobus, Ilione, Laodice, Polydorus, Polites, Helenus, Paris and Cassandra.
With the god Apollo, Hecuba had a son named Troilius. An oracle prophesied that Troy would not be defeated as long as Troilius reached the age of twenty alive. He and his sister, Polyxena, were ambushed and killed by Achilles during the Trojan War.
Polydorus, Priam's youngest son, was sent with gifts of jewelry and gold to the court of King Polymestor to keep him safe during the Trojan War. The fighting was getting vicious and Priam was frightened for the child's safety. After Troy fell, Polymestor threw Polydorus to his death to take the treasure for himself. Hecuba, though she was enslaved by the Achaeans when the city fell, eventually avenged her son.
Apollo also fell in love with Cassandra, daughter of Hecuba and Priam, and Troilius's half-sister. He promised Cassandra the gift of prophecy to seduce her, but she rejected him afterwards. Enraged, Apollo--unable to take back his gift--cursed her, so that no one would ever believe her prophecies.
Alternative: Hekabe
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Hecuba."
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
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hecuba | 19 |
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| Language | Translations for "HECUBA"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Greek | εκάβη. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | ecubahay | ||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-e-h-u" | |
-1 letter: beach. | |
-2 letters: ache, bach, beau, chub, cube, each, habu. | |
-3 letters: ace, bah, cab, cub, cue, eau, ecu, hae, hub, hue. | |
-4 letters: ab, ae, ah, ba, be, eh, ha, he, uh. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-e-h-u" | |
+1 letter: debauch. | |
+2 letters: barouche, chasuble. | |
+3 letters: backhouse, barouches, buckwheat, chasubles, crushable, debauched, debauchee, debaucher, debauches, flashcube, quebracho, subchaser, touchable. | |
+4 letters: backhauled, backhouses, backrushes, buckwheats, clubhauled, crunchable, debauchees, debauchers, debauchery, debauching, eurybathic, flashcubes, herbaceous, humpbacked, quebrachos, quenchable, subchapter, subchasers, unbleached, unbranched, unchewable. | |
+5 letters: bushwhacked, bushwhacker, hibernacula, hunchbacked, purchasable, subbranches, subchapters, swashbuckle, thumbtacked, uncatchable, uncheckable, uncrushable, unmatchable, unreachable, unshockable, unteachable, untouchable, unwatchable. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)48 45 43 55 42 41 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).... . -.-. ..- -... .- |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001000 01000101 01000011 01010101 01000010 01000001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)H E C U B A |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0048 0045 0043 0055 0042 0041 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)423937553635 |
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