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:

[19] Reading, cibus.

ACT II

[Enter Nurse from the palace.]

Chorus: Speak, nurse, the news thou bring'st. How fares the queen?

Do her fierce fires of love know any end?

Nurse: I have no hope that such a malady360

Can be relieved; her maddened passion's flames

Will endless burn. A hidden, silent fire

Consumes her, and her raging love, though shut