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

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Reading, caudam.

ACT II

[Enter Creon.]

Oedipus: I quake with horror, and I fear to know

The tendency of fate. My trembling soul

Strives 'neath a double load; for joy and grief

Lie mingled still in dark obscurity.

I shrink from knowing what I long to know.

Wherefore, O brother of my consort, speak;210