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

[27] Reading, celsus.

[28] Reading, ripis.

[29] Reading, fluentem.

ACT III

Deianira [hurrying distractedly out of the palace]: A nameless terror fills my stricken limbs, 705

My hair stands up in horror, and my soul,

But now so passion tossed, is dumb with fear;

My heart beats wildly, and my liver throbs

With pulsing veins. As when the storm-tossed sea710

Still heaves and swells, although the skies are clear