Were wet with tears, when on the funeral pyre

She placed thy form and saw the flames consume

Thy limbs and face fair as the wingéd god's.

Octavia: Me, too, he must destroy—or fall by me.

Nurse: But nature has not given thee strength to slay.175

Octavia: Yet anguish, anger, pain, distress of soul,

The ecstasy of grief will give me strength.

Nurse: Nay, by compliance, rather, win thy lord.

Octavia: That thus he may restore my brother slain?

Nurse: That thou thyself mayst go unscathed of death;