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

Consigned, hath known the funeral honors due

To those who live no more.605

Ulysses [joyfully]: Then are the fates

Indeed fulfilled, since Hector's son is dead,

And I with joy unto the Greeks will go,

With grateful tale of peace at last secure.

[Aside.]

But stay, Ulysses, this rash joy of thine!

The Greeks will readily believe thy word;

But what dost thou believe?—his mother's oath.