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 thee the maidens strike the harp350

In sweetest song;

To thee the votive torch is tossed;

The gleaming heifer, all unmarred

By the plow's rough touch

Falls at thy shrine.355

And thou, child of the Thunderer,

Pallas illustrious, hear;

Before whose might the Dardanian walls

Have trembled and fallen to dust.