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501 3 | captive kings in the prison dungeons! Behold, grievous as is
502 5 | as regards stableness or durability! and the coming day is always
503 4 | future marriages, in the durable dynasty, will henceforward
504 2 | as it was, indeed, at its earlier periods, when Saturn held
505 2 | ownself! Therefore I fix the earliest day for my marriage, namely
506 1 | burns only as long as the early impressions operate, which
507 1 | virginity done her? And what earthly use has her chaste modesty
508 1 | Titan is rising from his Eastern couch, with his radiating
509 5 | of the citizens have been eaten up with corruption and idleness
510 5 | time will ever serve to efface from the memory of man. ~
511 3 | part should be completely effaced - he caused to be destroyed
512 1 | now lying dead from the effects of poison. (Britannicus
513 4 | length, this excessive alarm, effectually chased away all further
514 1 | hesitate, to hurl them with efficacy upon one so guilty as is
515 1 | way brought under by my efforts, but she even seems to have
516 2 | after - and thus, incestuous Egypt, (on account of the marriage
517 | either
518 5 | husband too, and so proud and elated with her progeny; yet this
519 5 | fidelity, distinguished eloquence, moral courage, and of unflinching
520 5 | enthusiastic preference emanating, from the people! What a
521 1 | of having been caused to embark in such a craft, who have
522 1 | caused his own mother to be embarked on board an unseaworthy
523 4 | rushes forward to seek my embrace and showered my face with
524 4 | seek the pleasure of thy embraces, and which he could, with
525 4 | to sleep, hugged by the embracing arms of my Nero, but I was
526 1 | wife of an Augustus. (The emperors at that time assumed the
527 2 | NERO. The drawn sword, the employment of which some affect to
528 1 | with such strength, as to enable thee to carry out such a
529 2 | parent of his country, was enabled to reach the stars, and
530 1 | miserable state, than having to encounter the angry and murderous
531 1 | struggling with her own arms, and encourage her with kind words of sympathy,
532 1 | love of a chaste wife is an enduring possession - she is, as
533 4 | and at the unrelenting energy now being displayed by that
534 2 | is quite right then, to enforce a thing to be granted, which
535 1 | The arch-enemy has now entered the palace to which access
536 1 | my cruel destiny, to be equalled by none, in the severity
537 2 | support of the Senate, and the equestrian order has been accorded
538 5 | witness, and the goddesses of Erebus, who are the avengers of
539 3 | an Ixion! He may, indeed, erect his marble monuments, and
540 1 | avail thee thus to have escaped the waves? thou art doomed
541 1 | with her cruel husband, eschewing privacy, and her angry sentiments
542 3 | prays the populace, who are espousing her cause, not to grieve
543 5(12)| The tribune Livius Drusus, established great reforms in the laws.
544 1 | and let Rome preserve its everlasting glory (among nations). The
545 | everyone
546 5 | weep adequately for the evils I have gone through! What
547 3 | very world may, through his exactions, be drained of its riches
548 2 | NERO.~CARRY my orders out exactly, despatch some one, who
549 2 | is here meant) after the example set by Juno, sharing the
550 5 | adduce many more striking examples, if our griefs did not prevent
551 1 | nidifying season) and let me exceed too the Pandionian birds (
552 1 | Nero) and then to have to exchange kisses with a downright
553 5 | anger, which she has always excited in my bosom, and she shall
554 5 | Octavia, who was the means of exciting them on to those crimes. ~
555 1 | overpowered by the disaster, she exclaims: “Oh! my son, is this the
556 1 | nurse-child Octavia, the nurse execrates the drawbacks which beset
557 2(8) | Gaul: but they were both executed by Nero’s orders - Tacitus,
558 2 | the aspirations of those exiles by every means in their
559 2(7) | daughter of Germanicus, and was expatriated by Claudius to the island
560 5 | thing sublunary answer the expectations of anyone as regards stableness
561 1 | palace of the Emperor is expecting another arrival in the shape
562 2 | quasi-divine person Rome expects thee to cherish this honoured
563 1 | mankind alike, for he has expelled all the deities from their
564 5 | first object that shall expiate my anger, will be that one
565 4 | allotted to sleep might be expiated, and that the terror inspired
566 4 | last night, for when the expiring brightness of glorious day
567 4 | My fear prevents me from expressing in words, what I feel, but
568 4 | thus changed thy wonted expression of countenance? tell me
569 1 | people. ~ NUR. Restrain the expressions of thy angered mind, weigh
570 2 | qualifications) should have been born expressly for me. ~ SEN. Let all thoughts
571 2 | fear. ~ SEN. Whatever is extorted from a man is sometimes
572 4 | to garrison the city with extra protection, - nor does this
573 5 | down this hateful rabble, extremest privations, bitter starvation
574 5 | idleness and have grown exultant and surfeited with all the
575 4 | and shaking off all these fabrics of thy vision (fears having
576 2 | dripping from their decomposing faces; nor did this blood-and-slaughter
577 2 | Rome, torn by the intestine factions of its citizens, see shed
578 2 | affected humility. But that the factious citizens, conspirators against
579 4 | Now collect thy scattered faculties, take on a cheerful look,
580 4 | before lain down, thoroughly fagged out - I then beheld him
581 2 | granted, which solicitations fail to obtain? ~ SEN. It is
582 2 | fortune, the which, if thou failest to cherish, and pamper,
583 1 | into which I would, myself, fain be borne headlong! ~ NUR.
584 4 | unanimous authority in good faith, and upheld by one-minded
585 1 | Nurse, thou art the one faithful witness of my grief. ~ NUR.
586 2 | Minerva). ~ SEN. Probity, faithfulness in a wife, strict morality,
587 1 | household gods, having been falsely accused, by a trumped up
588 5(11)| of one of the principal families in Rome. ~~
589 4 | brag of the beauty of that famous offspring of hers, Helen,
590 1(4) | SUBJECTA FAMULAE. - Seneca constantly uses
591 4 | variety of visions, and fantastic appearances. Thou wonderest,
592 5 | to a remote spot, to some far-off shore, that, at last, the
593 4 | for some time in an angry fashion, they would plaster them
594 1 | May I, however, never be fated to perpetrate one! It would
595 2 | for the following up of my favorite pursuits. Oh! how it used
596 2 | blood, has showered her favors upon thee, has given thee
597 2 | supplications, and the low-toned fawning voices which mask all this
598 1 | in her manner, as if she feared that some one else might
599 1 | marriage knot, although thou fearedst, and wast averse to such
600 2 | of prey, and wild animals feasted for many a day on the mortal
601 4 | himself with the wings, and feathers of a swan - at another time,
602 1 | with their hands, as she is feebly struggling with her own
603 4 | expressing in words, what I feel, but thy fidelity and affection,
604 3 | shown in my cause, rouse any feelings of bitter resentment in
605 3 | riches he possesses at the feet of Nero! But the day and
606 3 | CHORUS. [646-689]~Octavia, feigning sadness, prays the populace,
607 5 | for a long time, the once felicitously married Livia, 13 the wife
608 1 | orders to the full! this fellow lays open with his sword
609 1 | towards the sky, mixed with female cries, and cruel death,
610 5 | undergoing the indignity of being fettered by chains, and being thus
611 1 | reconciled her matrimonial feud, do the same thing! Why
612 2 | confidence, thou reposest in that fickle deity, Fortune, she is a
613 1 | by a trumped up charge of fictitious crime! Woe is me! The arch-enemy
614 2 | power of mollifying the fierceness of the wild beasts. At all
615 2 | Claudius, will yet live to fill the palace with the celestial
616 4 | plaster them all over with fillthy mud! And the swearing, and
617 2 | dreadful slaughter, the sanious filthy discharges still dripping
618 2 | of the starry firmament, finding herself no longer held in
619 1 | forth bedecked in all the finery which our palatial home
620 1 | life, with her venerable fingers, before, ever plunged in
621 2 | sea, in a net, the large fishes, which had hitherto been
622 2 | my ownself! Therefore I fix the earliest day for my
623 1 | couch, with his radiating flakes of fire, and is giving forth
624 1 | off like some flickering flame - on the other hand, the
625 1 | the outside splendor and fleeting advantages of the treacherous
626 1 | to his own son, his own flesh and blood, and who took
627 1 | it passes off like some flickering flame - on the other hand,
628 1 | now only a collection of flimsy ashes, and a tristful shade!
629 4 | savage threatening look, flourished her torch at me, all covered
630 2 | portion of the beauty of every flower. ~ NERO. A kind deity has
631 5 | coast of Pandataria with a flowing breeze! ~ CHO. Oh! for the
632 4 | as she emerged from the foaming waves, whose marriage the
633 2 | must perish, - she must follow that darling brother of
634 4 | that torch, which thou followedst, was carried in front of
635 1 | of the crime: one of his followers is told off, and carries
636 3 | how all my labor - how my fondest wishes have turned out!
637 2 | subservient to my authority, forasmuch as it is only the fear they
638 1 | the cruel hand of fate; it forbids me, too, to bemoan the death
639 4 | following, - which I felt forced to do, so inspired was I
640 4 | that degree, that it beats forcibly against the walls of my
641 1 | been to her? But we are all forgetful of what we once were, since
642 1 | Who can describe the many forms in which crime has been
643 1 | brilliantly in the heavens, is now forsaking the wandering starry group,
644 2 | of thy commands, I will forthwith repair to the camp. ~ SEN.
645 2 | nor to sigh even, when the forum became positively infectious,
646 2(9) | where a great battle was fought by Octavius and Antony,
647 4 | vision (fears having no foundation) betake thyself to thy bed
648 2 | myself shall have laid the foundation-stone of a future dynasty, for
649 2 | hast been chosen as the fountain-head of peace, and the chief
650 1 | repose relaxes my tired frame, and sleep invades the lids
651 4 | with such reverence) the frankincense to the Gods, and when thou
652 2 | had been worsted in this fratricidal fray, by men of their own
653 2 | worsted in this fratricidal fray, by men of their own blood,
654 2 | rashly, especially towards friends, and those, allied to thy
655 2 | had received every marked friendship, and support. And that great
656 4 | pace accelerated by some fright, or what news is he bringing,
657 4 | 690-761]~Poppaea, being frightened, in her sleep, narrates
658 1 | shakes the earth with his frightful thunderbolts and terrifies
659 2 | Fortune, she is a very frivolous Goddess! ~ NERO. He must
660 4 | followedst, was carried in front of thee, by the hands of
661 5 | words - a sudden rigor has frozen up my veins! I am spell-bound! ~
662 2 | earth freely disclosed its fruitful bosom, and this Parent was
663 1 | suffers no delay in the fulfilment of the crime: one of his
664 2 | or that I might have a fuller prospect, from my elevated
665 1 | destroyed by one of the fungi, Boletus, a poisonous mushroom)
666 1(1) | think, suffering from the “furor uterinus”, which was not
667 4 | truth when it talks of the furtive amours of the Thunderer,
668 1 | to which access has been gained by the treachery and wiles
669 3 | companions in misery (Creperius, Gallus and Aceronia), the results
670 1 | Augusta (Agrippina) rends her garments, tears her hair, and deluges
671 4 | mustering) the armed bands, to garrison the city with extra protection, -
672 4 | the beauty of Poppaea.~IF garrulous report tells the truth when
673 1 | lest he should be found to gather greater influence in consequence
674 2(8) | Sulla into Narbonensian Gaul: but they were both executed
675 2 | imbibed the blood of a Roman general, and now it covers up his
676 2 | for the slaughter of his generalissimo (Julius Caesar) from whom
677 1(1) | GENITRIX. - Urgulanilla and Aelia
678 3 | spare nobody, would deal gently and mercifully with thee?
679 1 | amongst our ancestors, and the genuine progeny of Mars, and the
680 4 | speech - Alas! Why do the Ghosts, from those infernal regions,
681 2 | deity has moulded all these gifts in one individual, Poppaea;
682 3 | monuments, and in his pride, gild the very roofs of his palace,
683 3 | day of such rejoicing and gladness to the city - let not the
684 4 | the sacred altars with the gladsome wine! the upper part of
685 3 | confused kind of way dost thou glance back upon thy paternal household
686 1 | hostile spirit, and her savage glances! It is she, she that, like
687 4 | had given place to those gloomy stars, and the sky was handed
688 1 | he has usurped, and who glories in having been the author
689 5 | Caesar, whose name shone so gloriously over the whole world, thou,
690 1 | preserve its everlasting glory (among nations). The mighty
691 1 | the inevitable) and to go on hoping for some favorable
692 5 | Hell to witness, and the goddesses of Erebus, who are the avengers
693 1 | towards thee, that this fact goes far to conform my hopes. ~
694 2 | may be only squanderingly got rid of! But, behold, Nero
695 5 | The race of mortals is governed by the inexorable Fates!
696 2 | a parent to thy country, governest the world in thy quasi-divine
697 2 | upon thee, has given thee government of a mighty empire, that
698 5 | bewailed the loss of the Gracchi (Cornelia) whom intense
699 3 | the Stygian torches to grace this wicked marriage. It
700 4 | upper part of thy head, so gracefully shaded by the red veil (
701 1 | imperial power through every gradation of crime. Thus it is, that
702 2 | work, has produced nothing grander, and the awe-inspiring courses
703 3 | thee, thy father, thy great grandfather and men of our lineage of
704 1 | the Stygian streams, and grant aid to thy daughter, or
705 2 | conqueror, some while since, has grasped, with its greedy hands,
706 1 | treacheries, the terrible grasping for power and that thirst
707 1 | palatial home affords her; to gratify whose whims and caprices,
708 1 | to escape from a watery grave - some in a state of nudity
709 3 | would rather employ for a graver occasion, his funeral pile (
710 5 | broughtest forth, from thy gravid uterus, so many pledges
711 4 | means of nearly ruining the Greeks with their ten years’ war -
712 1 | descend and take the place of grim Tartarus, let balmy light
713 1 | words intermingled with much groaning, she surrendered her sad
714 1 | forsaking the wandering starry group, and Titan is rising from
715 5 | and alone in the desert grove, perched on some delicate
716 3 | the cruel tyrant began to grow wrathful against the very
717 5 | corruption and idleness and have grown exultant and surfeited with
718 5 | sufferings, why does he even grudge me the privilege of dying
719 1 | child-birth, bring forth those guarantees of peace, which the tranquil
720 3 | cohort) may vigilantly guard the portals of their emperor
721 4 | pride in being a chosen guardian of the emperor’s portals,
722 2 | seems to take cruelty as its guide, whilst irrepressible debauchery
723 5 | me, a man, whose strict habits of discipline and acknowledged
724 5 | before she was seen to be hacked about by the sword, for
725 1 | the tranquil universe will hail with joy, and let Rome preserve
726 1 | her garments, tears her hair, and deluges her face with
727 4 | there broken up, by means of hammers wielded by savage arms;
728 4 | apprehensions which still hang about my mind, may pass
729 1 | to leave their tranquil harbours, and the waves soon resounded
730 1 | lightnings, oftentimes, so harmlessly from thy regal hand? Why
731 1 | mental tenderness could harmonize with the impious disposition
732 2 | wife of mine, has never harmonized with my own. ~ SEN. During
733 1 | torches and disturbed the harmony of the marriage homestead!
734 4 | suffering sadly from my harrowing thoughts, I seem to have
735 1 | receiving their orders, hastened to leave their tranquil
736 Arg | Octavia, whom he had always hated, and marries Poppaea Sabina;
737 1 | the smallest hesitation, haughty, insufferable kings from
738 5 | and remote from the busy haunts of man, and the hotbed of
739 1 | what a cruel parent has heaped upon him, as the proceeds
740 1 | cause of my misfortunes, hear then the sad plaints of
741 2 | were, nor had they ever heard the battle-inspiring blasts
742 3 | canvassed abroad as mere hearsay. Claudia has been banished
743 1 | loyalty lurked in the silent hearts of the sturdy Roman sailors,
744 2 | should fall all the more heavily, or that I might have a
745 1 | continued grief, anger, heaviness of heart, misery of soul,
746 4 | famous offspring of hers, Helen, and it is permissible enough
747 5 | therefore call the deities of Hell to witness, and the goddesses
748 5 | presents itself, leaves thee helpless in the cruel ocean depths!
749 | Hence
750 4 | the durable dynasty, will henceforward be permanent in their tenure -
751 3 | Syphax, Perses, Jugurtha, Herodes) that populace which gave
752 1 | out, without the smallest hesitation, haughty, insufferable kings
753 3 | longer, why do I cease from hiding my face in Tartarus, the
754 4 | state of terror, and of what hiding-place art thou in quest, with
755 2 | SEN. The people exact higher and nobler observances from
756 2 | the land was one grand highway, open to all; and the enjoyment
757 1 | fear for the consequences hinders me from even outwardly bewailing
758 4 | acclamations of the citizens, holding himself up so loftily, and
759 2 | the limits of territorial holdings, and built new cities -
760 1 | whom that impious potentate holds in domination. Not so bad
761 2 | elevated pinnacle, to which his honors had raised him, in the eyes
762 2 | expects thee to cherish this honoured reputation, and thus freely
763 1 | fact goes far to conform my hopes. ~ OCT. Yes! it is a good
764 1 | inevitable) and to go on hoping for some favorable change
765 1 | another time, he donned the horns of the Sidonian bull, (when
766 4 | now our minds are simply horrified at what he can really do,
767 4 | throw in his way; he is hot in his rage and not very
768 5 | busy haunts of man, and the hotbed of cruel slaughter, and
769 3 | of Nero! But the day and hour will arrive soon on which
770 5(12)| as he was leaving his own house. ~~
771 1 | their dismal notes, as they hover over their aquatic abodes (
772 1 | some tempestuous cloud, hovering over my matrimonial bondage,
773 1 | letting in the sea, the hull giving way on account of
774 5 | contentment, lies hidden under the humble roof, but the storms of
775 2 | fourth race) and ventured to hunt the savage wild beasts,
776 1 | many are immerged, and hurry to their fate into a deep
777 5 | further, can they bear the idea of things going on peaceably,
778 5 | eaten up with corruption and idleness and have grown exultant
779 1 | very souls with his awful igneous displays and novel wonders (
780 1 | whom that mother of his ignited the nuptial torches and
781 1 | he despises alike, the ignoble herd of mankind and the
782 1 | race we are inclined to ignore in a manner, owing to our
783 1 | those lustful desires, who, ignoring us, her children (in a state
784 2 | ACT II.~
785 3 | ACT III.~
786 1 | cruel Erinnys, with all her ill-boding, advances into the palace
787 1 | already married, contracted an illicit matrimonial union with Silius (
788 2 | force springing from the imagination, and an insinuating passion,
789 2 | her brother Ptolemy) again imbibed the blood of a Roman general,
790 2 | of criminal designs, to immediate death! Brutus armed his
791 1 | shore by swimming - many are immerged, and hurry to their fate
792 4 | tremble all over, and has impeded my very powers of utterance -
793 1 | again to the surface, and impelled by her fear, she strikes
794 2 | willed that such a one (impersonating all these qualifications)
795 5 | woman, in whom nature has implanted the disposition, prone to
796 1 | behind them (allusion is here implied to the Oblivion induced
797 2 | heart, second to none in importance, are those and those only
798 4 | marriage union! Oh! what an important personage thou hast become,
799 1 | like cruel Erinnys, has imported her Stygian torches and
800 5 | some punishment which will impose some sort of limit to thy
801 5 | should not in short be so impregnable, but that fear might have
802 1 | cruel Venus stepped in and impregnated my wretched mother with
803 4 | sleep, those very things impressed on us during the day, under
804 1 | only as long as the early impressions operate, which called it
805 2 | be born again, to be an improvement upon the present one - as
806 3 | presence, he menaces, and imputes to me his own fate and the
807 2 | sword (iron) and gold (that incentive to crime), and very soon,
808 2 | the Corsican sea, where my inclinations were unfettered and where
809 1 | even seems to have acquired increased determination, arising out
810 1 | remove nor even lessen the incubus resulting, therefrom - (
811 2 | lapse into the condition of indescribable chaos, when the crash of
812 4 | What trouble do those tears indicate? ~ POP. Oh! Nurse, suffering
813 4 | during thy dream, clearly indicates that the future marriages,
814 2 | alternate tracks of the sun (indicating day and night) and the planet
815 1 | she shows this by various indications, by which, as if tacitly
816 1 | as being unworthy, too indifferent and servile, and inveighs
817 1 | bad was it, even, when the indignant earth formerly became a
818 5 | stripes, undergoing the indignity of being fettered by chains,
819 2 | NERO. But it is also indispensable that they should fear. ~
820 2 | moulded all these gifts in one individual, Poppaea; thou perceivest
821 1 | caresses. ~ OCT. That I may induce him to restore to me a brother
822 1 | implied to the Oblivion induced by Lethe), and he could
823 2 | mankind, the long-continued indulgence in which involving such
824 1 | although it may have been so industriously, canvassed abroad, and in
825 1 | to bow to the Fates (the inevitable) and to go on hoping for
826 5 | mortals is governed by the inexorable Fates! Nor does any thing
827 1 | wife, as the price of her infamy! Oh my father, be thou emerged
828 2 | forum became positively infectious, through that dreadful slaughter,
829 1 | future blood-shedding! For it inflamed the outraged breast of the
830 2 | many terrible blows it had inflicted, and he continued to rule,
831 4 | dashed to the ground by the infuriated hands of the populace, and
832 3 | that thou hast died as my innocent suckling, without any knowledge
833 2 | of mankind was considered inoffensive, and the third (the brazen
834 4 | protection, - nor does this insane feeling, which has so rashly
835 3 | sculptured models, and all inscriptions which represented me, on
836 2 | the world. - Luxury, that insidious curse of mankind, the long-continued
837 1 | overthrown on a sudden by the insiduous advantages of adverse fate,
838 2 | and now it covers up his insignificant remains! Then, indeed, was
839 2 | the imagination, and an insinuating passion, which rises up
840 2 | purpose, who pertinaciously insists on carrying out his tyrannical
841 2 | of the slain, exposed for inspection in their very Rostra, (a
842 | instead
843 4 | audacity to do, and at whose instigation all this has originated. ~
844 1 | cause of thy death, and the instigatrix of the death of thy son (
845 1 | The fact is, he has an instinctive hatred to start with, of
846 5 | endowed her mind with all the instincts of crime and treachery,
847 5 | darling wife from my lawfully instituted marriage couch, to violate
848 3 | populace which gave law and institutes to a country, which has
849 1 | she has broken down the institutions of Nature herself, and set
850 4 | delay in carrying out the instructions I have received from the
851 2 | is now arming the willing instruments of crime (assassins) with
852 1 | smallest hesitation, haughty, insufferable kings from their cities!
853 3 | unavenged, and the fatal craft intended for my destruction, given
854 4 | acquiring greater and greater intensity. ~ CHOR. What mad fury is
855 5 | suggestions, or advancing any more intercessions, and see and carry out my
856 3 | thou hast for me, and the interest shown in my cause, rouse
857 2 | everything that is hostile to my interests! and I myself shall have
858 2 | the bosom of its sacred interior (sacred because it had never
859 2 | citizens, see shed by such internecine slaughter! Divus Augustus,
860 4 | Poppaea, with some silly interpretation.~ NURSE.~HOW is it, my nursling,
861 1 | centred! There was a brief interval of consolation afforded
862 1 | foreshadow, would that the kind intervention of the Gods may avert such
863 2 | blood did Rome, torn by the intestine factions of its citizens,
864 1 | a golden shower (when he introduced himself to Danaë). The constellations
865 2 | because it had never been intruded upon). But this discontented
866 1 | my tired frame, and sleep invades the lids so wearied with
867 5 | to be dreaded; whilst it invariably brings round in its train,
868 1 | indifferent and servile, and inveighs against the crimes of Nero.~
869 2 | that applied itself to new inventions, but yet was quite observant
870 1 | headlong! ~ NUR. In vain thou invokest the Manes of thy father
871 5 | spare myself the mockery of invoking the good will of the deities
872 2 | long-continued indulgence in which involving such a pernicious departure
873 5 | up, and wafted thee away, Iphigenia, surrounded, by an ethereal
874 2 | from a man is sometimes an irksome gain to him, who obtains
875 2 | came the dreadful sword (iron) and gold (that incentive
876 2 | cruelty as its guide, whilst irrepressible debauchery is presided over
877 2(7) | expatriated by Claudius to the island of Corsica. Agrippina obtained
878 4 | ACT IV.~
879 3 | round rapidly the body of an Ixion! He may, indeed, erect his
880 3 | be a very target for the javelin of the enemy, he shall be
881 1 | couch of the Thundering Jove! Nor does Jupiter, now desert
882 1(6) | VIDIMUS COELO JUBAR. - Tacitus alludes to this
883 2 | equal of Jupiter himself, judging from the elevated pinnacle,
884 3 | lives? (Syphax, Perses, Jugurtha, Herodes) that populace
885 1 | the fierce tiger of the jungle, before I can subjugate
886 2 | Then it was the Virgin Justitia (Astraea) that goddess of
887 1(2) | marriage, although according to Juvenal, sexual morality was not
888 1 | a mother as well! ~ NUR. Juvenile ardour, thou must remember,
889 4 | streets, with cords, and after kicking them about for some time
890 1(5) | SILANUS. - Silanus was not killed, but committed suicide,
891 5 | torches which have been kindled against me for my destruction?
892 2 | hands! They parcelled out kingdoms, and defined the limits
893 3 | seek to salute with the kiss of submission, that sanguinary
894 3 | innocent suckling, without any knowledge of what existence was and
895 2 | The human race had never known what wars were, nor had
896 3 | absolute want! Alas! how all my labor - how my fondest wishes
897 5 | NERO.~OH! the excessive laggardliness in the spirit of my soldiery,
898 4 | on which, I have before lain down, thoroughly fagged
899 2 | cherish, and pamper, soon languishes, and being thus deprived
900 2 | so much so as again to lapse into the condition of indescribable
901 4 | brothers and thy paternal lares - that torch, which thou
902 2 | was the civil war, which lasted so long, brought to an end,
903 2 | please a husband - those lasting advantages of mind, and
904 2 | permanent, and as long as life lasts; but thou oughtest to know
905 1 | for the benefits I have lavished on thee? I am indeed worthy
906 5 | my darling wife from my lawfully instituted marriage couch,
907 1 | slightest degree, as to the lawlessness of such a proceeding. With
908 2 | should be mild, when he is laying down precepts for youngsters. ~
909 1 | to the full! this fellow lays open with his sword the
910 5 | lot! ~ PREF. The wicked leaders of the insurrection have
911 5 | public, were the means of leading to their ultimate ruin, -
912 1 | soon springs a tremendous leak, letting in the sea, the
913 3 | for! joined to, and still leaning on me, thou mightst always
914 1 | amounts to a very limited lease of human enjoyment. The
915 5 | dead calm presents itself, leaves thee helpless in the cruel
916 5(12)| assassinated just as he was leaving his own house. ~~
917 1(1) | notion of nymphomania, which led to such doings, so derogatory
918 4 | possession, through the legal marriage contracted by unanimous
919 1 | as a rule, will scarcely lend their belief.” - He rages (
920 5 | NERO. Not if she has lent herself to acts of crime? ~
921 1 | does not remove nor even lessen the incubus resulting, therefrom - (
922 1 | the Oblivion induced by Lethe), and he could prefer one
923 5 | out my orders to the very letter; give orders that Octavia
924 1 | springs a tremendous leak, letting in the sea, the hull giving
925 2 | matters, above their own level, with some degree of diffidence. ~
926 4 | about dreadful war, and levelled the Phrygian Kingdom to
927 2(8) | Nero’s orders - Tacitus, Lib. 12. Annal., and Suetonius
928 5 | marriage couch, to violate her liberty in short, as far as was
929 1(2) | those days of Patrician licentiousness. ~~
930 1 | frame, and sleep invades the lids so wearied with weeping -
931 4 | shining forth and revealed the likeness of Poppaea, was ruthlessly
932 3 | be destroyed all pictured likenesses or sculptured models, and
933 4 | was thrown, has made my limbs tremble all over, and has
934 5 | will impose some sort of limit to thy anger, and which,
935 1 | thing amounts to a very limited lease of human enjoyment.
936 2 | kingdoms, and defined the limits of territorial holdings,
937 3 | grandfather and men of our lineage of glorious reputation!
938 2 | pernicious departure from the lines of moderation, acquired
939 4 | Thou art matrimonially linked with a Caesar! The chief
940 1 | overcome, first the savage lion of the plains, and the fierce
941 2 | really too much for me to listen to; it is in my power to
942 1 | the brother Britannicus lived), but now, forsooth, I am
943 5(12)| TE QUOQUE LIVI. - The tribune Livius Drusus,
944 4 | citizens, holding himself up so loftily, and hanging on so closely
945 2 | insidious curse of mankind, the long-continued indulgence in which involving
946 4 | Matrons, with their locks loose and hanging down, gave forth
947 1 | her hideous locks, hanging loosely, duly surrounded with their
948 1 | giving way on account of the looseness of its timbers, and it ships
949 1 | thy own, when Jupiter, the lord of the heavens, and father
950 2 | preserves its existence, loses its influence in a short
951 4 | I seem to have utterly lost my senses: the fact is,
952 1 | has drawn a prize in the lottery, of fortune, and now shares
953 2 | that a Caesar should be loved. ~ NERO. But it is also
954 1 | my father, thou art laid low, fallen by the wicked snares
955 2 | cringing supplications, and the low-toned fawning voices which mask
956 1 | struggle. - But a great deal of loyalty lurked in the silent hearts
957 1 | thee, oh! thou daughter of Lucretius, so much, to be pitied,
958 4 | my placid repose long - a lugubrious multitude appeared before
959 2 | traced out by that solar luminary, to contemplate the revolutions
960 1 | Cupid) may leave her in the lurch, let her beauty be never
961 2 | the amorous fires which lurk beneath that shyness. ~
962 1 | a great deal of loyalty lurked in the silent hearts of
963 1 | odious slavery, or that cruel lust should carry off victoriously
964 2 | youth, and is kept alive by luxurious surroundings, want of occupation
965 1 | a brother of whom is now lying dead from the effects of
966 4 | Achilles, to strike his lyre, and produce his amorous
967 1 | monstrous double crime! He madly rushes to effect the murder
968 5 | influence over a lot of madmen? ~ NERO. Octavia, who was
969 4 | hast become, and in what a magnificent palace thou hast settled
970 1 | the Universe, the prop and mainstay of the Imperial Augustan
971 5 | must be seized with some mania or another, and in one direction
972 4 | Such, indeed, as Peleus manifested, when he took Thetis to
973 2 | master, and where an ample margin was afforded me for the
974 2 | whom he had received every marked friendship, and support.
975 4 | indicates that the future marriages, in the durable dynasty,
976 Arg | he had always hated, and marries Poppaea Sabina; in consequence
977 1 | and the genuine progeny of Mars, and the true racial blood
978 2 | low-toned fawning voices which mask all this affected humility.
979 2 | I felt that I was my own master, and where an ample margin
980 4 | prayers and desires! Thou art matrimonially linked with a Caesar! The
981 4 | marriage, and the Roman Matrons, with their locks loose
982 2 | rule, the public approach matters, above their own level,
983 2 | absent from everything, thou mayest ever do. ~ NERO. Shall I
984 4 | thy life any obstacle thou mayst throw in his way; he is
985 4(10)| represents the poet’s meaning. ~~
986 5 | orders the most severe measures to be taken against them,
987 4 | and produce his amorous melodies, he it was who was the means
988 5 | me? or is it that she is melted by compassion at the troubles
989 3 | ubiquitous in his presence, he menaces, and imputes to me his own
990 4 | fury of the populace is now menacing. - Behold, the Prefects,
991 5 | others before thee? We will mention thee, first of all, oh!
992 1 | Fates have! ~ NUR. Surely a merciful deity will vouchsafe better
993 4 | being displayed by that merciless little God! ~
994 3 | desire was, that any claim to merit on my part should be completely
995 5 | long time, however, she met her death by the sword,
996 2 | sorry departure from the methods of governing, when the vulgar
997 2 | rash foolish moment, thou mightest believe all this sort of
998 2 | that an old man should be mild, when he is laying down
999 2 | trust, ruled the earth with mildness - The human race had never
1000 2 | goddess, so fierce in battle (Minerva). ~ SEN. Probity, faithfulness
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