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

Did fierce Achilles strike the peaceful lyre;

He forced the Greeks and Agamemnon proud815

To do his will. Illustrious cities, too,

And Priam's realm he utterly destroyed.

And now my mind in fear awaits to see

What Cupid's cruel penalties will be.

FOOTNOTES:

[57] Reading, intentus.

ACT V

Nero [seated in a room of his palace]: Too slow my soldiers' hands, too mild my wrath,820