person
Hecuba
also: Hecubam, Hecuba
Queen of Troy, wife of Priam and mother of Paris (Alexander). Cicero (De Fato 34) denies that she was the cause of Troy's destruction merely by bearing Paris, in distinguishing antecedent from efficient causes.
Reading notes
- Tusculan Disputations §3.63 Hecuba they think is imagined turned into a dog
Hecuba, queen of Troy, said in legend to have been transformed into a dog (whence Cynossema, 'the dog's tomb'); Cicero takes the metamorphosis to signify the bitterness and frenzy of her grief.