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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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