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

Which such a monster bore."

So spake the dying queen, her words

And groans commingling. So at last

Through gaping wounds her spirit fled375

In grief and agony.

FOOTNOTES:

[55] Reading, mariti mutua.

[56] Reading, saevo.

ACT II

Seneca [alone]: Why hast thou, potent Fate, with flattering looks,