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

Whom shall the wretched land invoke,

If any hundred-headed pest,

In Lerna born, spring up anew1535

And spread destruction; if again

Some boar in ancient Arcady

Infest the woods; or if again

Some son of Thracian Rhodope,

With heart more hard than the frozen lands

That lie 'neath snowy Helice,

Should stain his stalls with human gore?1540