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

Through the wandering shades? Does the hydra seek

In fear to plunge his snaky heads

'Neath the murky waves? Do all thy tasks

Hold thee in fear?

Ah me! Ah me!

What foolish, raving madness this!

I am mistaken quite. I know1930

The shades and manes fear thee not;

For neither does the tawny skin

Stripped from the fierce Argolic beast