The Tragedies of Seneca / Translated into English Verse, to Which Have Been Appended Comparative Analyses of the Corresponding Greek and Roman Plays, and a Mythological Index

by Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Alas, in evil hour of fate

Were we begotten, wretched still,

Whether the sun is lost to us880

Or banished by our impious sins!

But away with vain complaints and fear:

Eager for life is he who would not die,

Though all the world in death around him lie.

FOOTNOTES:

[48] Reading, monstra.

[49] Reading, with a semicolon after Anguis.