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

From its base

Will I this tomb destroy.

Andromache: The tomb of him

Whose body thou didst ransom for a price?

Ulysses: I will destroy it, and the sepulcher

From its high mound will utterly remove.665

Andromache: The sacred faith of heaven do I invoke,

And just Achilles' plighted word: do thou,

O Pyrrhus, keep thy father's sacred oath.

Ulysses: This tomb shall soon lie level with the plain.