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

To compensate our woes, this grace impart,

That we may know the worst that can befall.

Behold us ready for the stroke of fate.

Helen: Alas! I would 'twere mine to break the bonds

Which bind me to this life I hate; to die

By Pyrrhus' cruel hand upon the tomb940

Of great Achilles, and to share thy fate,

O poor Polyxena. For even now,

The ghost doth bid that thou be sacrificed,

And that thy blood be spilt upon his tomb;