The murder of Astyanax

Euripides: The Trojan Women
Talthybius, herald of the Greeks, announces to Andromache, Hector's widow, the sentence of the Greek generals deciding the fate of Hector's son Astyanax.

Talthybius:
Then know the worst: the Greeks are going to kill your son.

Andromache:
Oh, no, no! This is worse than what they do to me.

Talthybius:
Odysseus in full assembly made his point...

Andromache:
But this is horrible beyond all measure!

Talthybius:
That such a great man's son must not be allowed to live...

Andromache:
By such a sentence may his own son be condemned!

Talthybius:
But should be thrown down from the battlements of Troy.