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1 1 | OCTAVIA. [1-34]~Octavia, weary of her
2 2(8) | s orders - Tacitus, Lib. 12. Annal., and Suetonius apud
3 2(8) | Suetonius apud Neronem, Cap. 15. ~~
4 1 | OCTAVIA - NURSE. [58-272]~The Nurse consoles the
5 1 | CHORUS. [273-376]~The Chorus being in
6 1 | OCTAVIA. [1-34]~Octavia, weary of her existence,
7 1 | OCTAVIA’S NURSE. [35-57]~On account of the sad
8 1 | CHORUS. [273-376]~The Chorus being in favor
9 2 | SENECA. [377-436]~THE philosopher despises
10 2 | SENECA. [377-436]~THE philosopher despises
11 2 | NERO - PREFECT - SENECA. [437-592]~The philosopher warns
12 1 | OCTAVIA’S NURSE. [35-57]~On account of the sad misfortunes
13 1 | OCTAVIA - NURSE. [58-272]~The Nurse consoles
14 2 | PREFECT - SENECA. [437-592]~The philosopher warns his
15 3 | AGRIPPINA. [593-645]~AGRIPPINA appears from
16 3 | AGRIPPINA. [593-645]~AGRIPPINA appears from
17 3 | OCTAVIA - CHORUS. [646-689]~Octavia, feigning sadness,
18 3 | OCTAVIA - CHORUS. [646-689]~Octavia, feigning sadness,
19 4 | NURSE - POPPAEA. [690-761]~Poppaea, being frightened,
20 4 | NURSE - POPPAEA. [690-761]~Poppaea, being frightened,
21 4 | CHORUS. [762-779]~The Chorus praises
22 4 | CHORUS. [762-779]~The Chorus praises the
23 4 | MESSENGER - CHORUS. [780-819]~The Messenger describes
24 4 | MESSENGER - CHORUS. [780-819]~The Messenger describes
25 5 | NERO - PREFECT. [820-876]~Nero, boiling over
26 5 | NERO - PREFECT. [820-876]~Nero, boiling over with
27 5 | CHORUS - OCTAVIA. [877-982]~The Chorus sings regarding
28 5 | CHORUS - OCTAVIA. [877-982]~The Chorus sings regarding
29 2 | take the birds of the air aback, with their swift arrows,
30 2 | envy has stepped aside, abased and overpowered by the devoted
31 4 | have been now so long in abeyance! when, all on a sudden,
32 2 | savage ways, and looked with abhorrence at the hands of mankind
33 1 | even, has witnessed an abominable crime, when the emperor,
34 2 | may such wickedness be absent from everything, thou mayest
35 2 | sheathed his truculent sword, absolutely rendered blunt by the many
36 2 | many ages, have been very abundantly shown amongst us for a long
37 1 | before, ever plunged in the abyss of grief, I beheld the wounds
38 4 | this rushing on at a pace accelerated by some fright, or what
39 1 | that ferocious woman, who accomplished whatever she set about,
40 2 | equestrian order has been accorded thee, and it is by the unanimous
41 | according
42 5 | all the benefits that have accrued to them during my reign,
43 2 | whose influence, pleasure accrues to its votaries, for as
44 5 | If Nero is preparing to accumulate my sorrows, by my slaughter,
45 2 | and the aggregate vices accumulating throughout so many ages,
46 3 | misery (Creperius, Gallus and Aceronia), the results of the cruel
47 1 | thy face from out of the Acheron, and feast thy eyes on the
48 4 | commanded that ferocious Achilles, to strike his lyre, and
49 4 | any kind of fear, but is acquiring greater and greater intensity. ~
50 1 | fall to pieces through the action of the waves, and be wrecked)
51 3 | demands to know who was the actual murderer (Nero). Spare me,
52 1 | before I can subjugate the adamant heart of the tyrant Nero. -
53 1(5) | Agrippina, and Tacitus says this added to the public indignation. ~~
54 1 | Typhoeus ever was, for he is in addition, the avowed enemy of the
55 2 | of moderation, acquired additional power over mankind, as it
56 5 | a soldier, hast dared to address thy Emperor? Thou appeasedst
57 5 | against death! We could adduce many more striking examples,
58 5 | can now cause me to weep adequately for the evils I have gone
59 5 | unflinching severity, in their administration of just laws; and thee also
60 2 | fall! ~ SEN. Oh! it is an admirable thing to shine conspicuously
61 5 | with that death that is the admitted retribution ordained for
62 1 | son of Dion Domitius, his adopting father) is the very tyrant
63 2 | death and handed down for adoration in the temples. And in a
64 2 | SEN. The ardor of the adult youth, on the other hand,
65 2(7) | Seneca had been accused of adultery with Julia, the daughter
66 2 | and of whom they can take advantage. ~ SEN. They will seek to
67 1 | insiduous advantages of adverse fate, and see what has befallen
68 1 | all my well-intentioned advice, nor can her resolute strong-mindedness,
69 Arg | the widow of Cn. Domitius Aenobarbus Nero, to whose son, he gave
70 1 | time - it is an old love affair - but this same woman is
71 4 | Thunderer, and the love affairs in which he so much delighted;
72 2 | employment of which some affect to despise, will do all
73 1 | control and was constrained to afford an unopposed passage for
74 1 | which our palatial home affords her; to gratify whose whims
75 1 | appearance on their shores, the affrighted Britons fled in dismay;
76 4 | so bad that I should be afraid to repeat it; they are,
77 5(11)| the daughter of Scipio Africanus, and being sprung from him,
78 | afterwards
79 2 | accumulating throughout so many ages, have been very abundantly
80 1 | him, as the proceeds of aggravated crime; although he is ungrateful
81 2 | more confirmed, and the aggregate vices accumulating throughout
82 4 | fury is it, that is now agitating the minds of the populace? ~
83 2 | to be reproduced by this agreeable means, (Love) it is that
84 5 | oh! thou the daughter of Agrippa, the unhappy parent of so
85 1 | with funeral torches, and aims its blows at the eyes and
86 1 | surpass the Alcyons (Ceyx and Alcyon) which give out their dismal
87 1 | and let me surpass the Alcyons (Ceyx and Alcyon) which
88 1 | he could prefer one of an alien race, to his own son, his
89 1 | having never before owed allegiance to any foreign conqueror!
90 2 | towards friends, and those, allied to thy cause. ~ NERO. It
91 4 | the night, and the period allotted to sleep might be expiated,
92 2 | Senate, Rostrum) nor was it allowable for anyone to weep for the
93 1(3) | ELECTRA. - Sophocles has alluded copiously to the weeping
94 1(6) | VIDIMUS COELO JUBAR. - Tacitus alludes to this comet, and Seneca
95 1 | darkness, and bright clear day ally itself with the dewy night,
96 | along
97 2 | heavenly bodies, and the alternate tracks of the sun (indicating
98 1 | to an end, but by the sad alternative means of Death! What with
99 1 | served up, and the diabolical ambition of that woman, and her smooth,
100 4 | rashly sprung up, appear amenable to any kind of fear, but
101 1 | Tartarus, let balmy light amicably join hands with hideous
102 2 | surroundings, want of occupation amid the alluring advantages
103 | among
104 2 | Considering also, that a large amount of sympathy towards the
105 1 | all this sort of thing amounts to a very limited lease
106 2 | own master, and where an ample margin was afforded me for
107 5 | This fury of the populace amply proves it to me. ~ PREF.
108 1 | Restrain the expressions of thy angered mind, weigh with care the
109 2 | birds of prey, and wild animals feasted for many a day on
110 2(8) | orders - Tacitus, Lib. 12. Annal., and Suetonius apud Neronem,
111 1 | amongst the manes, there is no anxiety with them, as to the offspring
112 4 | has been so long, and so anxiously looked forward to, has shone
113 5 | the heavens, to absolute Apotheosis, as Divus did! was she not,
114 5 | me? But now there is no apparent hope of my ultimate safety -
115 1 | owed subjection - at whose appearance on their shores, the affrighted
116 4 | of visions, and fantastic appearances. Thou wonderest, no doubt,
117 4 | a lugubrious multitude appeared before me, as if to celebrate
118 3 | AGRIPPINA. [593-645]~AGRIPPINA appears from the infernal regions,
119 5 | address thy Emperor? Thou appeasedst them indeed! No! No! let
120 2 | skilled progeny - one that applied itself to new inventions,
121 5 | exile has his Queen Poppaeea appointed for me? or is it that she
122 2 | his tyrannical plans, and appoints the next day for his marriage
123 5 | does the ungrateful rabble appreciate the clemency they have received
124 5 | popular regard, and excessive appreciation by the public, were the
125 2 | short, his mind is free from apprehension. ~ SEN. Clemency is the
126 2 | of! But, behold, Nero is approaching with a step suggestive of
127 4 | and upheld by one-minded approval. ~ MES. This excessive uncontrollable
128 2 | the Gods above, may always approve of thy acts. ~ NERO. It
129 2 | mother-in-law (Messalina) is rather apt to shake confidence out
130 2(8) | 12. Annal., and Suetonius apud Neronem, Cap. 15. ~~
131 1 | as they hover over their aquatic abodes (during the nidifying
132 1 | fictitious crime! Woe is me! The arch-enemy has now entered the palace
133 1 | stiff as it were with the Arctic cold, drives his wagon at
134 2 | for youngsters. ~ SEN. The ardor of the adult youth, on the
135 1 | as well! ~ NUR. Juvenile ardour, thou must remember, burns
136 5 | my country has been the arena of so much cruelty towards
137 Arg | ARGUMENT.~CLAUDIUS DRUSUS CAESAR (
138 2 | Cupid as a cruel deity; we arm his hands with arrows, and
139 2 | was safe then, with his armaments, and the fidelity of his
140 2 | persistent madness is now arming the willing instruments
141 4 | and the shattered locks, arose out of the excitement created
142 4 | Agrippina) and the envy aroused, by the marriage, foreshadow
143 5 | utterly cast down by such an array of misfortunes? If Nero
144 1 | Emperor is expecting another arrival in the shape of offspring,
145 2 | first parent, nature, the artificer of that immense work, has
146 1 | ungrateful enough to be ashamed of ever having received
147 1 | only a collection of flimsy ashes, and a tristful shade! For
148 2(8) | Rabellius had been exiled into Asia, and Sulla into Narbonensian
149 2 | Contemptible envy has stepped aside, abased and overpowered
150 1 | mother, with her last breath, asks the perpetrator of her murder,
151 5 | assuming such a funeral aspect, not wade in the blood arising
152 2 | doubt, would further the aspirations of those exiles by every
153 5 | show of reason, could have aspired to a place in the heavens,
154 2 | willing instruments of crime (assassins) with the view to my destruction!
155 1 | down, and although they assist her with their hands, as
156 1 | Piety with all its sacred associations quits the scene, in trembling
157 1 | susceptibilities, if he has any, and assume a bland, obsequious demeanour
158 5 | destruction? Why does Rome, assuming such a funeral aspect, not
159 4 | The senate were fairly astounded when they beheld thy transcendent
160 1 | continually; behold, the very atmosphere seems polluted with the
161 2 | crime, I should think, to attempt, even to coerce an emperor. ~
162 1 | of her wealth of physical attractions - all this sort of thing
163 1 | mainstay of the Imperial Augustan Dynasty (the Caesars). Oh!
164 5 | of Trivia, even (Diana) Aulis itself, is a less cruel
165 1 | existence, bewails her misery.~Aurora, that was shining brilliantly
166 1 | they remark: “What does it avail thee thus to have escaped
167 1 | their cities! And they nobly avenged thy manes, oh! Virgin thou! (
168 5 | goddesses of Erebus, who are the avengers of crime, and thee, even,
169 1 | thou fearedst, and wast averse to such a union, and that
170 1 | quite on a par with the aversion which the husband entertains
171 1 | intervention of the Gods may avert such a climax! ~
172 2 | veneration, fled the earth, and avoided their savage ways, and looked
173 1 | terrible woe - she always avoids being alone with her cruel
174 1 | for he is in addition, the avowed enemy of the gods and of
175 1 | possession - she is, as thou art aware, only the first who has
176 2 | nothing grander, and the awe-inspiring courses traced out by that
177 3 | into the world, as a little baby boy, and suckled thee at
178 1 | shining in the heavens, Bacchus is duly installed in his
179 1 | our dynasty is under the ban of oppression through the
180 1 | meant to reach the Stygian banks! (that is, one which meant
181 1 | fleets, and amongst even such barbarous nations, and such tempestuous
182 2 | much under the dominion of bashfulness, that she conceals from
183 2 | had they ever heard the battle-inspiring blasts of the shrill war-trumpet!
184 3 | that some ferocious wild beast had torn the very womb out
185 4 | to that degree, that it beats forcibly against the walls
186 1 | high, captivated by mortal beauties; and thou, Octavia, art
187 4 | the means of ruining the beautiful cities of the world; and
188 3 | riches to answer to his beck and call! The Parthians
189 | becomes
190 1 | with quickened steps to the bedchamber of Octavia? ~ OCT. Trace
191 1 | Poppaea) shining forth bedecked in all the finery which
192 1 | account of the sad misfortunes befalling her nurse-child Octavia,
193 3 | blood - the cruel tyrant began to grow wrathful against
194 2 | in the human breast; it begins to show itself in youth,
195 | behind
196 1 | will scarcely lend their belief.” - He rages (Nero) and
197 2 | foolish moment, thou mightest believe all this sort of thing to
198 1 | such a story be wrongfully believed, although it may have been
199 2 | the loss of those who had belonged to them, nor to sigh even,
200 2 | protection that he should be beloved. ~ NERO. It is proper that
201 1 | it forbids me, too, to bemoan the death of a brother,
202 2 | amorous fires which lurk beneath that shyness. ~ NERO. Indeed!
203 5 | have received during my beneficent rule, nor, further, can
204 1 | execrates the drawbacks which beset the proud surroundings of
205 1 | Messalina’s) and thy face besmeared with the unsightly blood!
206 3 | which, in ancient days, bestowed the magisterial dignities
207 4 | fears having no foundation) betake thyself to thy bed chamber. ~
208 1 | weary of her existence, bewails her misery.~Aurora, that
209 | beyond
210 2 | condemns, and I myself am only biding my time for the acquiescence
211 1 | he has any, and assume a bland, obsequious demeanour towards
212 2 | heard the battle-inspiring blasts of the shrill war-trumpet!
213 1 | have witnessed of late a blazing phenomenal splendor in the
214 2 | decomposing faces; nor did this blood-and-slaughter business stop here, by any
215 1 | for the purpose of future blood-shedding! For it inflamed the outraged
216 3 | for ever the palace of the blood-thirsty Emperor. ~ CHOR. Behold!
217 4 | now and then, a terrific blowing of trumpets, and the mother
218 2 | sword, absolutely rendered blunt by the many terrible blows
219 1 | mother to be embarked on board an unseaworthy craft, veritably
220 4 | may be, who entertains a boastful pride in being a chosen
221 5 | hands of the Tyrrhenian boatmen, before she was seen to
222 2 | revolutions of the heavenly bodies, and the alternate tracks
223 1 | vision, when a state of bodily repose relaxes my tired
224 5 | PREFECT. [820-876]~Nero, boiling over with rage, on account
225 1 | destroyed by one of the fungi, Boletus, a poisonous mushroom) and
226 1 | hovering over my matrimonial bondage, and is burning with her
227 1 | just where slow-moving Boötes, stiff as it were with the
228 5 | my misery the craft which bore away my brother! Ah! that
229 4 | has given Nero to thee, bound by the sacred nuptial chains,
230 2 | penetrated into the very bowels of its parent, and out of
231 1 | has prepared the poisoned bowl for a husband, and she,
232 2 | governing than that of mere boyhood. ~ NERO. I think, that at
233 4 | golden shower. - Sparta may brag of the beauty of that famous
234 1 | exist the Roman type of bravery amongst our ancestors, and
235 4 | when, all on a sudden, Nero breaks into my chamber, and buries
236 5 | Pandataria with a flowing breeze! ~ CHO. Oh! for the gentle
237 4 | red veil (worn by recent brides, as tokens of modesty, and
238 1 | was centred! There was a brief interval of consolation
239 4 | looked forward to, has shone brightly in response to thy prayers
240 4 | night, for when the expiring brightness of glorious day had given
241 1 | Aurora, that was shining brilliantly in the heavens, is now forsaking
242 4 | cherished household gods of thy brothers and thy paternal lares -
243 5 | whole world, thou, that broughtest forth, from thy gravid uterus,
244 1 | that thou some day might build up the shattered dynasty,
245 2 | territorial holdings, and built new cities - sometimes they
246 2 | their own blood, and the bulk of the people, were fairly
247 2 | into subjection the fierce bulls, and submit their necks
248 2 | nuptial-bed of her brother (having buried past differences). ~ NERO.
249 4 | breaks into my chamber, and buries his cruel sword deep down
250 1 | entertains towards her! They burn with mutual hatred! The
251 1 | ardour, thou must remember, burns only as long as the early
252 1 | perpetrator of her murder, to bury the cruel weapon into her
253 5 | troubles, and remote from the busy haunts of man, and the hotbed
254 1 | the veins of the men of bye-gone days! They drove out, without
255 4 | state of trepidation, are calling together (mustering) the
256 5 | which same wind, when a dead calm presents itself, leaves
257 1 | thou art; but thou hast calmed thyself down somewhat, just
258 5 | now, forsooth, they can calmly look on and see thee weeping
259 1(2) | sexual morality was not a canon held in the strictest observance
260 2 | services of a son (Tiberius), canonized after death and handed down
261 2(8) | Suetonius apud Neronem, Cap. 15. ~~
262 1 | gratify whose whims and caprices, that son has caused his
263 5 | shake the lofty palaces, or capricious fortune overthrows them
264 2 | may wish to do. ~ SEN. Be careful, as to the confidence, thou
265 4 | testifying with joy in his very carriage and countenance! Such, indeed,
266 1 | followers is told off, and carries out his orders to the full!
267 2(9) | Antony, against Brutus and Cassius, and allusion is here made
268 5 | and balmy Zephyrs, which caught thee up, and wafted thee
269 4 | appeared before me, as if to celebrate my marriage, and the Roman
270 4 | the Gods are said to have celebrated with great pomp and with
271 2 | NERO. They might not censure the less, however. ~ SEN.
272 1 | my one, my only hope was centred! There was a brief interval
273 1 | veritably Stygian marriage ceremony, and only extinguished the
274 3 | and so much mingled with certain misgivings, yet so often
275 2 | that they should fear a Cesar. ~ SEN. But it is better
276 1 | me surpass the Alcyons (Ceyx and Alcyon) which give out
277 5 | that fear might have some chance of breaking down her feeble
278 1 | hoping for some favorable change on the part of fortune (
279 2 | condition of indescribable chaos, when the crash of the fallen
280 1 | on the part of fortune (chapter of events). My nurse-child,
281 1 | accused, by a trumped up charge of fictitious crime! Woe
282 1 | wickedly drove her cruel chariot over the body of her murdered
283 4 | excessive alarm, effectually chased away all further disposition
284 4 | countenance, and why are thy cheeks so wet with weeping? Surely,
285 4 | scattered faculties, take on a cheerful look, I beseech thee, and
286 4 | against the walls of my chest. My fear prevents me from
287 1 | And may she, by a happy child-birth, bring forth those guarantees
288 2 | remains! Then, indeed, was the civil war, which lasted so long,
289 3 | his desire was, that any claim to merit on my part should
290 1 | hideous darkness, and bright clear day ally itself with the
291 4 | Regions during thy dream, clearly indicates that the future
292 5 | pair of wings! would I not cleave the air with my rapid wings
293 2 | account of the marriage of Cleopatra with her brother Ptolemy)
294 3 | of my impious slaughter cling to me, as long as I am numbered
295 1 | a rush at him, as he is clinging to me, passes his sword
296 4 | loftily, and hanging on so closely to thy side! An Emperor
297 1 | the shades; I wish that Clotho had broken the threads of
298 Arg | Germanicus, and the widow of Cn. Domitius Aenobarbus Nero,
299 5 | that craft steer for the coast of Pandataria with a flowing
300 2 | envy, amongst the rocky coasts of the Corsican sea, where
301 4 | whom they report as having coaxingly embraced the bosom of Leda,
302 1(6) | VIDIMUS COELO JUBAR. - Tacitus alludes
303 2 | think, to attempt, even to coerce an emperor. ~ SEN. But that
304 3 | the armed trained bands (cohort) may vigilantly guard the
305 1 | it were with the Arctic cold, drives his wagon at each
306 4 | guarantee of peace! Now collect thy scattered faculties,
307 1 | me! thou art now only a collection of flimsy ashes, and a tristful
308 2 | warlike persistency of the combatants! But Antony, being worsted
309 1 | in thy shapely form and comely face - the greedy flames,
310 4 | control. - He, it was, who commanded that ferocious Achilles,
311 5 | to the waves and let the commander of that craft steer for
312 2 | reputation amongst the deities commissioned from Heaven, with that sacred
313 3 | bewailed the deaths of my companions in misery (Creperius, Gallus
314 1 | stormy seas seek cordial companionship with the stars and let fire
315 3 | a paltry consideration, compared with the many punishments
316 5 | it that she is melted by compassion at the troubles I have suffered,
317 3 | Augustus, and thus not be compelled to share the odious nuptial
318 2 | at the same time, it is competent for me, an Emperor, with
319 2 | man only has a right to complain, who can obtain nothing
320 5(14)| of Livia, was accused of complicity in the poisoning of Drusus,
321 2 | authority. ~ SEN. Rather comply placidly with the wishes
322 1 | fairly contaminates and compromises the very name of Augustus,
323 1 | restrained anger suffice to conceal her terrible woe - she always
324 2 | of bashfulness, that she conceals from observation, the amorous
325 5 | woman, as far as thou art concerned, deserves such a name as
326 3 | avenging Erinnys is preparing a condign death for such a cruel tyrant -
327 2 | again to lapse into the condition of indescribable chaos,
328 1 | heavy punishment for her mad conduct! ~
329 5 | altogether! ~ OCT. Where art thou conducting me? What has that tyrant
330 1 | altogether unworthy, I am free to confess, of being married to a woman
331 1 | by which, as if tacitly confessing it, she openly portrays
332 2 | young woman’s life, her confiding love is not sufficiently
333 3 | nations into subjection, they confined conspiring captive kings
334 5 | shall fall a prey to the conflagrations which I will set going!
335 1 | that this fact goes far to conform my hopes. ~ OCT. Yes! it
336 3 | wilt fall; but why in that confused kind of way dost thou glance
337 1 | the title of “Augustus.”) Conquer therefore thy troubles as
338 3 | country, which has never been conquered, and which, in ancient days,
339 4 | should have been proud of his conquest! She, Poppaea will outstrip
340 5(11)| being sprung from him, was consequently a scion of one of the principal
341 5 | about by the sword, for a considerable time, and eventually succumbed,
342 3 | by thy crime, is a paltry consideration, compared with the many
343 2 | view to my destruction! Considering also, that a large amount
344 1(1) | those days. At all events, consistent with this notion of nymphomania,
345 1(1) | to her dignity as a Queen Consort, she had been guilty of
346 2 | admirable thing to shine conspicuously amongst the illustrious
347 3 | subjection, they confined conspiring captive kings in the prison
348 1(4) | SUBJECTA FAMULAE. - Seneca constantly uses this word and in very
349 1 | introduced himself to Danaë). The constellations of Leda are now shining
350 1 | same way that he has been constituted a son by adoption, a young
351 2 | welfare of the citizens, constitutes the greatest virtue, in
352 1 | brought under control and was constrained to afford an unopposed passage
353 2 | illustrious men of the land, to consult the welfare of one’s country,
354 1 | she gave up thy body to be consumed on the funeral pile, resembling
355 1 | ignominious yoke! he fairly contaminates and compromises the very
356 2 | that solar luminary, to contemplate the revolutions of the heavenly
357 1 | revenge, which she might be contemplating. OCTAVIA.~OH! my cruel
358 2 | should be regarded with contempt, and that I should be fallen
359 2 | the Sea to thy very nod! Contemptible envy has stepped aside,
360 2 | war, as long as ever he contended against the enemies of his
361 5 | Poverty, in a state of happy contentment, lies hidden under the humble
362 1 | at each turn of the night continually; behold, the very atmosphere
363 5 | Diana), Oh! ye kind breezes, convey away this victim, Octavia,
364 5 | carried away by the same conveyance. Piety has no tutelar deity
365 1 | person of his parent, had her conveyed in a Stygian Craft (that
366 4 | the heart of Nero ever be cooled down? That little Deity
367 1(3) | Sophocles has alluded copiously to the weeping of Electra,
368 1 | Let the stormy seas seek cordial companionship with the stars
369 4 | along the streets, with cords, and after kicking them
370 5 | have been eaten up with corruption and idleness and have grown
371 2(7) | Claudius to the island of Corsica. Agrippina obtained his
372 2 | the rocky coasts of the Corsican sea, where my inclinations
373 2 | most powerful remedy, in counteracting any danger arising from
374 3 | shedding tears - for Nero coupled his previous wickedness
375 2 | grander, and the awe-inspiring courses traced out by that solar
376 2 | Roman general, and now it covers up his insignificant remains!
377 2 | indescribable chaos, when the crash of the fallen heavens will
378 2 | may for the second time, create a new race, and the one,
379 1 | not meet with any future credence - let not a fresh wife,
380 1 | woman will long hold the credit for her share in the transaction,
381 2 | to a man who himself is credited with justice, and does not
382 1 | distant posterity, although credulous as a rule, will scarcely
383 3 | my companions in misery (Creperius, Gallus and Aceronia), the
384 2 | partiality for Octavia, which has crept into the noddles of the
385 1 | excessive disgust! Many of the crew venture to render aid to
386 2 | its watery gulf, and the crews, which had been worsted
387 1 | the sky, mixed with female cries, and cruel death, in various
388 2 | their reluctant lips, those cringing supplications, and the low-toned
389 1 | some avenging deity may crop up (exist) who will come
390 4 | advancing towards me, with a crowd following him, and then
391 3 | husband Claudius, who was cruelly deprived of life, disturbs
392 5 | face of my wife, and being crushed by the fear of my punishments,
393 1 | such murderous wrath, as to culminate in the cruel slaughter of
394 2 | Luxury, that insidious curse of mankind, the long-continued
395 4 | mud! And the swearing, and cursing, that went on, and their
396 2 | remedy, in counteracting any danger arising from others. ~ NERO.
397 2 | elevated post, of the many dangers I might see around me? I
398 4 | sky was handed over to the dark realms of night, I went
399 3 | with those of Nero! Let us dash to the earth with our violent
400 4 | Poppaea, was ruthlessly dashed to the ground by the infuriated
401 5 | parent of so many sons, the daughter-in-law of an Augustus, the wife
402 3 | model images of Poppaea, dazzling our vision side by side
403 3 | to have duly bewailed the deaths of my companions in misery (
404 2 | guide, whilst irrepressible debauchery is presided over by that
405 2 | been so alluring to me with deceptious outside show, hast thou
406 2 | still dripping from their decomposing faces; nor did this blood-and-slaughter
407 2 | people, ratified by the decrees of the senators, that thou
408 2 | its productiveness, much deeper down in the bosom of its
409 4 | him rouse himself, for the defence of the palace, which the
410 2 | cities - sometimes they defended the homesteads of others,
411 1 | and set every human law at defiance - a cruel wife has prepared
412 1 | her vacant place! She has defiled the sanctity of our household
413 2 | parcelled out kingdoms, and defined the limits of territorial
414 1 | Poppaea, and condemns the degenerate patience of the Romans,
415 5 | desert grove, perched on some delicate twig, should I then be able
416 2 | pursuits. Oh! how it used to delight me, to look at the glorious
417 4 | affairs in which he so much delighted; once, whom they report
418 2 | and the cruel torch, and delude ourselves that he was born
419 1 | garments, tears her hair, and deluges her face with her sad tears
420 1 | assume a bland, obsequious demeanour towards him. ~ OCT. I shall
421 3 | But! oh! miserable! oh! demented Octavia, canst thou reasonably
422 1 | who, although a daughter, denied the accustomed funeral pile
423 2 | SEN. It is hard to have to deny anything to a suppliant. ~
424 1 | intermingled the race, by a most deplorable and unpropitious nuptial
425 5 | helpless in the cruel ocean depths! A miserable parent, 11
426 2 | else is of lofty rank (and derives prestige from it) must fall! ~
427 1(1) | which led to such doings, so derogatory to her dignity as a Queen
428 1 | water, let the very heavens descend and take the place of grim
429 1 | the very world! Who can describe the many forms in which
430 4 | 780-819]~The Messenger describes the excitement of the populace,
431 2 | over the world, when they deserted their very homesteads, with
432 5 | the punishment which they deserve must be left for me to carry
433 1 | Behold! as I have richly deserved, let me, unburied, be borne
434 2 | might suspect of criminal designs, to immediate death! Brutus
435 5 | up in arms, and were most desirous of restoring to thee thy
436 2 | CARRY my orders out exactly, despatch some one, who will bring
437 2 | of which some affect to despise, will do all that. ~ SEN.
438 3 | thee, and to what a fatal destination! The just anger of thy mother,
439 1 | will over the cherished destinies of the very world! Who can
440 1 | OCTAVIA.~OH! my cruel destiny, to be equalled by none,
441 5 | popular favor, which has been destructive to so many, and after that,
442 5 | manes! Why in my misery am I detained on earth to no purpose?
443 1 | have acquired increased determination, arising out of the very
444 2 | burning indignation has determined me to take my revenge, and
445 3 | the former crimes of this detestable man, or that he, who is
446 1 | favor of Octavia, looks with detestation upon the marriage of Poppaea,
447 1 | day ally itself with the dewy night, before my mental
448 1 | been served up, and the diabolical ambition of that woman,
449 2 | governing, when the vulgar herd dictate terms to an emperor. ~ SEN.
450 1 | pile, resembling as thou didst, the winged God himself, (
451 3 | body, or that thou hast died as my innocent suckling,
452 2 | brother (having buried past differences). ~ NERO. An incestuous
453 2 | level, with some degree of diffidence. ~ NERO. They might not
454 1 | which thy father was the dignified head, with thy own off-spring. ~
455 3 | bestowed the magisterial dignities only on those who were worthy
456 5 | at the same time, would diminish our fears. ~ NERO. The first
457 1 | he (an adopted son of Dion Domitius, his adopting father)
458 1 | fairly overpowered by the disaster, she exclaims: “Oh! my son,
459 1 | the people with some fresh disasters, whom that impious potentate
460 2 | slaughter, the sanious filthy discharges still dripping from their
461 5 | whose strict habits of discipline and acknowledged fidelity
462 2 | the smiling earth freely disclosed its fruitful bosom, and
463 2 | intruded upon). But this discontented age penetrated into the
464 3 | there remain instead only disgrace and perpetual sorrow! and
465 1(1) | immoralities, before the disgraceful mockery of marriage with
466 4 | the bosom of Leda, whilst disguising himself with the wings,
467 1 | Alcyon) which give out their dismal notes, as they hover over
468 1 | affrighted Britons fled in dismay; having never before owed
469 4 | headlong rashness, into this display of madness. Whatever statue
470 4 | unrelenting energy now being displayed by that merciless little
471 1 | souls with his awful igneous displays and novel wonders (fresh
472 1 | wife like Juno, with her dissembled grief, has completely overcome
473 1 | the grieving Octavia, and dissuades her from prosecuting any
474 1 | thy son, to which crime, distant posterity, although credulous
475 4 | ask what it was, when I distinctly perceived the blood of my
476 1 | her Stygian torches and disturbed the harmony of the marriage
477 3 | cruelly deprived of life, disturbs my very manes; he rushes
478 4 | earth seemed to be suddenly divided, and an immense yawning
479 Arg | poisoned, Nero, then Emperor, divorces Octavia, whom he had always
480 2 | one to be prevented from divorcing a wife, a privilege which
481 2 | It is easy to preach that doctrine to a man who himself is
482 1(1) | nymphomania, which led to such doings, so derogatory to her dignity
483 4 | perplexed and terrified by the doleful visions of last night, for
484 1 | Progne and Philomela) with my dolorous strains! for my troubles
485 1 | impious potentate holds in domination. Not so bad was it, even,
486 1 | Leda), at another time, he donned the horns of the Sidonian
487 5 | dragged away to meet thy doom! Poverty, in a state of
488 3 | through his exactions, be drained of its riches to answer
489 Per | DRAMATIS PERSONAE.~ ~~~OCTAVIA.~
490 2 | the savage wild beasts, to draw out from the sea, in a net,
491 1 | the nurse execrates the drawbacks which beset the proud surroundings
492 5 | coming day is always to be dreaded; whilst it invariably brings
493 2 | Philippi, and the Sicilian sea drew their ships into its watery
494 5 | audacity, and in another they drift headlong with their rashness!
495 3 | whither has thy madness drifted thee, and to what a fatal
496 2 | filthy discharges still dripping from their decomposing faces;
497 2 | the heavens, is unable to drive away from himself, who penetrates
498 3 | son of mine, with my last drops of blood - the cruel tyrant
499 4 | Rufus who was ordered, to be drowned by Nero). Crispinus rushes
500 2 | Goddess! ~ NERO. He must be a dullard indeed, who does not know,
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