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

Look on in silence at the crime they hate.

The Trojans, too, attend the sacrifice,1130

And wait with quaking hearts the final scene

Of Ilium's fall. When suddenly there shone

The gleaming torches of the wedding march;

And, as the bride's attendant, Helen came

With drooping head. Whereat the Trojans prayed:

"Oh, may Hermione be wed like this,1135

With bloody rites; like this may Helena

Return unto her lord." Then numbing dread