Hecuba

A New Latin Dictionary by Charlton T. Lewis Ph.D. and Charles Short, LL. D.

Hĕcŭba, ae, and Hĕcŭbē, ēs, f., = Ἑκάβη,

the daughter of Dymas , wife of Priam; after the destruction of Troy the slave of Penelope , changed through rage into a dog , Verg. A. 2, 501; 515; Ov. M. 13, 423; 549 sq.; 577; Cic. Tusc. 3, 26, 63; id. Fat. 15, 34.—Transf., an ugly old woman (opp. to Andromache), Mart. 3, 76, 4.