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

As when the eager people haste

Throughout the city to behold

The play in some new theater;

As when they crowd the Pisan fields840

When the fifth summer brings again

The Elean Thunderer's sacred games;

As, when the lengthening nights return,

And the balanced Scales the sun's bright car

Detain, to gentle sleep inclined,

The people throng the mysteries845