Prefect: Shall angry grief decide their punishment?
Nero: It shall—whose fame no future age shall dim.
Prefect: Which neither wrath nor fear shall moderate?[58]
Nero: She first shall feel my wrath who merits it.
Prefect: Tell whom thou mean'st. My hand shall spare her not.860
Nero: My wrath demands my guilty sister's death.
Prefect: Benumbing horror holds me in its grasp.
Nero: Wilt not obey my word?
Prefect: Why question that?
Nero: Because thou spar'st my foe.