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1001 1 | with the stars and let fire mingle with water, let the very
1002 3 | last, so long, and so much mingled with certain misgivings,
1003 5 | down her feeble powers for mischief, or the punishment itself,
1004 5(11)| MISERANDA PARENS. - This unfortunate
1005 3 | much mingled with certain misgivings, yet so often canvassed
1006 2 | Gods above? ~ SEN. It is a mistake, we mortals commit, when
1007 1 | raised towards the sky, mixed with female cries, and cruel
1008 5 | enough? Is this, too, the mode in which thou, as a soldier,
1009 3 | the sight, on all sides, model images of Poppaea, dazzling
1010 3 | likenesses or sculptured models, and all inscriptions which
1011 2 | departure from the lines of moderation, acquired additional power
1012 2 | wife, strict morality, and modest reserve should be, what
1013 5 | let this hostile little modicum of punishment business fall
1014 4 | regions, think proper to molest me, and at the same time,
1015 2 | which has the power of mollifying the fierceness of the wild
1016 4 | about during our waking moments, such is the rapidity, and
1017 1 | alive; he then perpetrates a monstrous double crime! He madly rushes
1018 4 | way, or whatever brazen monument was shining forth and revealed
1019 3 | indeed, erect his marble monuments, and in his pride, gild
1020 2 | NERO. An incestuous mother-in-law (Messalina) is rather apt
1021 1 | thy very life, and in my motherly weakness have handed over
1022 2 | NERO. A kind deity has moulded all these gifts in one individual,
1023 4 | them all over with fillthy mud! And the swearing, and cursing,
1024 3 | know who was the actual murderer (Nero). Spare me, Claudius,
1025 1 | crimes has been the outcome - murders - wholesale treacheries,
1026 1 | fungi, Boletus, a poisonous mushroom) and thy palace and thy
1027 4 | trepidation, are calling together (mustering) the armed bands, to garrison
1028 1 | accustomed funeral pile to the mutilated remains of the old man!
1029 1 | towards her! They burn with mutual hatred! The confidence,
1030 4 | altogether as it is a divine and mysterious property of the mind, that
1031 | namely
1032 2 | tables, which registered the names of those that were doomed
1033 2(8) | into Asia, and Sulla into Narbonensian Gaul: but they were both
1034 4 | frightened, in her sleep, narrates her dream to the Nurse;
1035 1 | the citizens from their native land, and robbed my brother
1036 1(6) | and Seneca in the Quaest: Natur. ~~
1037 2 | not subdued the turbulent natures of Plautus and Sulla, though
1038 4 | was who was the means of nearly ruining the Greeks with
1039 2 | bulls, and submit their necks to the yoke - to plough
1040 | neither
1041 1 | That hostile woman, that Nero-conqueress, Poppaea is like some tempestuous
1042 2(8) | Annal., and Suetonius apud Neronem, Cap. 15. ~~
1043 2 | draw out from the sea, in a net, the large fishes, which
1044 1 | has overwhelmed me with never-ending grief! As the consequence
1045 3 | too like, the face of this newly created Empress! And let
1046 4 | by some fright, or what news is he bringing, with his
1047 | next
1048 1 | aquatic abodes (during the nidifying season) and let me exceed
1049 5 | gone through! What Thracian nightingale will ever send forth its
1050 2 | obliged to make for the Nile, in the ships already prepared
1051 1 | wedding present and that noble young Roman stained with
1052 2 | people exact higher and nobler observances from him who
1053 2 | of valor of his: how many nobles, young men, and old men,
1054 1 | from their cities! And they nobly avenged thy manes, oh! Virgin
1055 | nobody
1056 2 | which has crept into the noddles of the Romans, shall not
1057 4 | Nurse treating the dream as nonsense, consoles Poppaea, with
1058 1(1) | the mother of Octavia, was noted for her lustful propensities,
1059 5 | after that, brings into notice, the hard fates which have
1060 1 | awful igneous displays and novel wonders (fresh prodigies).
1061 1(2) | NOVERCA. - The marriage of Claudius
1062 | nowhere
1063 1 | existence and drag on his noxious life? Alas! Oh! thou supreme
1064 1 | grave - some in a state of nudity clung to the planks of the
1065 2(9) | here made to the immense number of the slain, which were
1066 2 | set by Juno, sharing the nuptial-bed of her brother (having buried
1067 4 | interpretation.~ NURSE.~HOW is it, my nursling, that thou art quitting
1068 1 | with the plash of their oars, and the craft shoving off,
1069 2 | worsted in a battle, was obliged to make for the Nile, in
1070 1 | allusion is here implied to the Oblivion induced by Lethe), and he
1071 4 | that went on, and their obscene language was quite in keeping
1072 4 | arrows of his, which will obscure all thy fires (throw them
1073 1 | any, and assume a bland, obsequious demeanour towards him. ~
1074 1(2) | canon held in the strictest observance in those days of Patrician
1075 2 | inventions, but yet was quite observant of the sacredness of the
1076 2 | that she conceals from observation, the amorous fires which
1077 4 | wilt pay with thy life any obstacle thou mayst throw in his
1078 5 | urged on by their foolish obstinacy. ~ NERO. And is this, dost
1079 2(7) | island of Corsica. Agrippina obtained his return and made him
1080 2 | irksome gain to him, who obtains a thing by such means. ~
1081 2 | absolute hatred towards me, are obvious enough in her very look -
1082 3 | rather employ for a graver occasion, his funeral pile (Nero’
1083 2 | luxurious surroundings, want of occupation amid the alluring advantages
1084 3 | such a marriage as this (to occur before thy eyes), and at
1085 5 | only, after having been an offender for so long! Therefore,
1086 4 | my enemies; and, Nurse, offer up thy prayers for me, and
1087 4 | admired thee when thou offeredst up (with such reverence)
1088 5 | Therefore, abstain from offering me any more suggestions,
1089 1(4) | Her father had filled the office of Quaestor. ~~
1090 1 | let me rehearse to thee my oft-repeated plaints, and let me surpass
1091 2 | not so, and it lives to be older, so much so as again to
1092 1 | installed in his father’s Olympian kingdom and Alcides possesses
1093 4 | Jupiter himself from lofty Olympus, and has extinguished his
1094 1 | has exposed to my view its ominous fiery torch, (tail) just
1095 4 | good faith, and upheld by one-minded approval. ~ MES. This excessive
1096 3 | put up with more grievous ones! May this day procure for
1097 4 | open before me, into which opening I seemed to have been borne
1098 1 | tacitly confessing it, she openly portrays her fears! And
1099 1 | as the early impressions operate, which called it forth,
1100 1 | which he takes care to oppress with an ignominious yoke!
1101 1 | dynasty is under the ban of oppression through the severe anger
1102 5 | perpetually weighed down by some oppressive yoke, lest they may have
1103 2 | the planet Phoebe, that orb which the wandering stars
1104 5 | the admitted retribution ordained for such deeds. No! this
1105 2 | Senate, and the equestrian order has been accorded thee,
1106 2 | marriage, nor will the solemn ordinances of piety sanction it. ~
1107 1(3) | desire for the return of Orestes, to revenge the death of
1108 4 | instigation all this has originated. ~ MES. They are making
1109 2 | reserve should be, what ought to please a husband - those
1110 2 | as life lasts; but thou oughtest to know that each day steals
1111 | ourselves
1112 1 | series of crimes has been the outcome - murders - wholesale treacheries,
1113 5 | upon a repetition of those outrages at some future time! No!
1114 4 | conquest! She, Poppaea will outstrip in beauty this daughter
1115 1 | once most powerful dynasty overthrown on a sudden by the insiduous
1116 5 | palaces, or capricious fortune overthrows them altogether! ~ OCT.
1117 2 | the fallen heavens will overwhelm impious mankind, so that
1118 1 | inclined to ignore in a manner, owing to our fear of that Tyrant
1119 2 | representative part of my ownself! Therefore I fix the earliest
1120 4 | is this rushing on at a pace accelerated by some fright,
1121 1 | day on which I shall be packed off to the Stygian Shades? ~
1122 3 | which represented me, on pain of death, throughout the
1123 5 | give to me, in misery, a pair of wings! would I not cleave
1124 1 | all the finery which our palatial home affords her; to gratify
1125 4 | countenance? tell me why this paleness? What trouble do those tears
1126 2 | herself would yield the palm, or even the wife of Jupiter,
1127 4 | utterance - and my heart palpitates to that degree, that it
1128 3 | fell by thy crime, is a paltry consideration, compared
1129 2 | failest to cherish, and pamper, soon languishes, and being
1130 1 | and let me exceed too the Pandionian birds (Progne and Philomela)
1131 4 | bringing, with his breath panting like that? - (out of breath). ~
1132 1 | sentiments are quite on a par with the aversion which
1133 2 | which crime seems to rule paramount, and rampant wickedness
1134 2 | their cruel hands! They parcelled out kingdoms, and defined
1135 5(11)| MISERANDA PARENS. - This unfortunate woman
1136 1 | bewailing the loss of my parents, who were snatched away
1137 4 | that the Phrygian shepherd (Paris) should have been proud
1138 3 | to his beck and call! The Parthians in suppliant humility, may
1139 2 | moreover, whether that foolish partiality for Octavia, which has crept
1140 4 | the marriage day). The partisans of Octavia, were bewailing
1141 4 | hang about my mind, may pass away from me! ~
1142 1 | constrained to afford an unopposed passage for our Roman fleets! Think
1143 2 | her brother (having buried past differences). ~ NERO. An
1144 1 | condemns the degenerate patience of the Romans, as being
1145 4 | in his rage and not very patient, in his transports of anger,
1146 1 | lips. ~ OCT. Although I may patiently suffer these things, and
1147 1(2) | observance in those days of Patrician licentiousness. ~~
1148 2 | The philosopher warns his patron Nero to no purpose, who
1149 3 | inflict the stripes and pave the way for the ignominious
1150 4 | years’ war - he it was who paved the way for the downfall
1151 2(9) | PAVERE. - It was at Philippi, where
1152 5 | idea of things going on peaceably, but the restless rascals
1153 4 | countenance! Such, indeed, as Peleus manifested, when he took
1154 1 | be made to pay the just penalty of his crimes - he (an adopted
1155 2 | But this discontented age penetrated into the very bowels of
1156 2 | drive away from himself, who penetrates the recesses of the angry
1157 4 | it was, when I distinctly perceived the blood of my husband? ~
1158 2 | individual, Poppaea; thou perceivest that the kind Fates have
1159 5 | alone in the desert grove, perched on some delicate twig, should
1160 | perhaps
1161 2 | distance, remote7 from the perils of envy, amongst the rocky
1162 4 | visitations of the night, and the period allotted to sleep might
1163 2 | indeed, at its earlier periods, when Saturn held the dominion
1164 1 | husband, and she, herself, has perished afterwards by the hands
1165 4 | of hers, Helen, and it is permissible enough that the Phrygian
1166 2 | good fortune (position) permits all things I may wish to
1167 4 | of my Nero, but I was not permitted to enjoy my placid repose
1168 2 | in which involving such a pernicious departure from the lines
1169 1 | however, never be fated to perpetrate one! It would please me
1170 1 | is still alive; he then perpetrates a monstrous double crime!
1171 1 | her last breath, asks the perpetrator of her murder, to bury the
1172 3 | instead only disgrace and perpetual sorrow! and all this arising
1173 4 | senses: the fact is, I was perplexed and terrified by the doleful
1174 3 | even then, stifled the persecuting hatred of that son of mine,
1175 3 | for their lives? (Syphax, Perses, Jugurtha, Herodes) that
1176 2 | shattered by the warlike persistency of the combatants! But Antony,
1177 2 | distance off - they, whose persistent madness is now arming the
1178 Per | DRAMATIS PERSONAE.~ ~~~OCTAVIA.~OCTAVIA’S
1179 4 | union! Oh! what an important personage thou hast become, and in
1180 2 | Nero to no purpose, who pertinaciously insists on carrying out
1181 1 | witnessed of late a blazing phenomenal splendor in the heavens, 6
1182 1 | Pandionian birds (Progne and Philomela) with my dolorous strains!
1183 2 | and night) and the planet Phoebe, that orb which the wandering
1184 1 | may be of her wealth of physical attractions - all this sort
1185 2 | mortals commit, when we picture the winged god Cupid as
1186 3 | caused to be destroyed all pictured likenesses or sculptured
1187 1 | marriage! Oh! that intense piece of wickedness! Silanus5
1188 1 | is the spot that must be pierced with thy sword, the place
1189 2 | judging from the elevated pinnacle, to which his honors had
1190 4 | the gods above, with thy pious supplications, that the
1191 4 | not permitted to enjoy my placid repose long - a lugubrious
1192 2 | authority. ~ SEN. Rather comply placidly with the wishes of the citizens.
1193 5 | will ever send forth its plaintive notes equal to mine? I only
1194 2 | indicating day and night) and the planet Phoebe, that orb which the
1195 1 | state of nudity clung to the planks of the shattered craft,
1196 2 | carrying out his tyrannical plans, and appoints the next day
1197 1 | soon resounded with the plash of their oars, and the craft
1198 4 | angry fashion, they would plaster them all over with fillthy
1199 2(8) | PLAUTI SULLAEQUE. - Plautus Rabellius
1200 5 | thy gravid uterus, so many pledges of peace to the universe!
1201 2 | their necks to the yoke - to plough the earth, before free from
1202 2 | free from the wounds of the ploughshare, which, however, when thus
1203 1 | one time, he assumed the plumage of a swan (to gain the better
1204 2 | weapons, threateningly, with plunder, only, for their object!
1205 1 | venerable fingers, before, ever plunged in the abyss of grief, I
1206 1 | as she is speaking) she plunges into the sea, sinks, but
1207 2 | angry sea, the kingdom of Pluto, and draws down from their
1208 1 | craft, and with their aid, ply the waves successfully -
1209 4(10)| Culpa”, represents the poet’s meaning. ~~
1210 1 | dead from the effects of poison. (Britannicus was not a
1211 5(14)| accused of complicity in the poisoning of Drusus, but it was not
1212 1 | of the fungi, Boletus, a poisonous mushroom) and thy palace
1213 1 | the very atmosphere seems polluted with the horrible breath
1214 4 | have celebrated with great pomp and with the universal acquiescence
1215 1 | nurse-child, I beseech thee to ponder over all this and take it
1216 4 | destroyed the kingdom of poor old Priam, and has been
1217 5 | what exile has his Queen Poppaeea appointed for me? or is
1218 2 | that each day steals away a portion of the beauty of every flower. ~
1219 1 | confessing it, she openly portrays her fears! And the winged
1220 2 | even, when the forum became positively infectious, through that
1221 1 | fear of death, but from the possibility of some crime being committed!
1222 2 | prospect, from my elevated post, of the many dangers I might
1223 1 | to which crime, distant posterity, although credulous as a
1224 2 | the fact is, Love is a potent force springing from the
1225 1 | disasters, whom that impious potentate holds in domination. Not
1226 2 | acclamations, which have been poured forth - the enthusiastic
1227 5 | dragged away to meet thy doom! Poverty, in a state of happy contentment,
1228 3 | Octavia, feigning sadness, prays the populace, who are espousing
1229 2 | cause. ~ NERO. It is easy to preach that doctrine to a man who
1230 2 | when he is laying down precepts for youngsters. ~ SEN. The
1231 3 | and Nero whose death she predicts. - (Shade of Agrippina speaks.)~
1232 4 | menacing. - Behold, the Prefects, in a state of trepidation,
1233 5 | that favor and enthusiastic preference emanating, from the people!
1234 4 | MES. They are making preparations to restore Claudia (Octavia)
1235 3 | he is ubiquitous in his presence, he menaces, and imputes
1236 1 | wickedness! Silanus5 was presented to that vile woman, Agrippina,
1237 1 | the wickedness of a wife - presently she will share the same
1238 5 | same wind, when a dead calm presents itself, leaves thee helpless
1239 1 | hail with joy, and let Rome preserve its everlasting glory (among
1240 2 | being thus deprived of what preserves its existence, loses its
1241 2 | irrepressible debauchery is presided over by that salacious Goddess,
1242 2 | lofty rank (and derives prestige from it) must fall! ~ SEN.
1243 2 | But which, it is to be presumed, will obtain a favorable
1244 2 | illustrious descent, should pretend to serve me willingly! What
1245 1 | down somewhat, just try and prevail on thy husband’s susceptibilities,
1246 4 | indignation, and becomes prevailed upon to restore Claudia
1247 2 | whom I have exiled, still prevails amongst the people in this
1248 5 | examples, if our griefs did not prevent us - it was only quite lately,
1249 2 | I be the only one to be prevented from divorcing a wife, a
1250 4 | walls of my chest. My fear prevents me from expressing in words,
1251 3 | tears - for Nero coupled his previous wickedness with another
1252 4 | the kingdom of poor old Priam, and has been the means
1253 3 | conspiring captive kings in the prison dungeons! Behold, grievous
1254 1 | cruel husband, eschewing privacy, and her angry sentiments
1255 5 | hateful rabble, extremest privations, bitter starvation with
1256 1 | the lawlessness of such a proceeding. With her hideous locks,
1257 1 | heaped upon him, as the proceeds of aggravated crime; although
1258 3 | grievous ones! May this day procure for me an end to my troubles,
1259 1 | and novel wonders (fresh prodigies). But I have witnessed of
1260 4 | to strike his lyre, and produce his amorous melodies, he
1261 2 | was found to hide away its productiveness, much deeper down in the
1262 1 | piety (moral observances) profit her? What good has the having
1263 1 | too the Pandionian birds (Progne and Philomela) with my dolorous
1264 1 | a mother that is the prominent theme in my lamentations,
1265 2 | for my reception, if I am prompt with the stern sword, and
1266 5 | implanted the disposition, prone to do evil, and which has
1267 1 | star of the Universe, the prop and mainstay of the Imperial
1268 1(1) | was noted for her lustful propensities, supposedly, I should think,
1269 4 | a divine and mysterious property of the mind, that it reproduces,
1270 5 | sorrow! The fact is a large proportion of the citizens have been
1271 2 | they cast their eyes at the proscription tables, which registered
1272 1 | and dissuades her from prosecuting any revenge, which she might
1273 2 | hitherto been unmolested and protected by the waves, or to take
1274 5 | Is there anyone who can prove Octavia to be guilty of
1275 5 | fury of the populace amply proves it to me. ~ PREF. Who is
1276 3 | burdened existence, within the proximity of my venerated household
1277 2 | Cleopatra with her brother Ptolemy) again imbibed the blood
1278 2 | and my person as Emperor, puffed up with pride, about their
1279 4 | statues, which had been pulled down from their standing
1280 2 | SEN. They will seek to punish, though, one that is an
1281 4 | Poppaea, sculptured out of the purest marble stood in their way,
1282 1 | canvassed abroad, and in such a purposeless manner, that it may not
1283 1 | another bright day. Let me pursue the recital of my woes burdened
1284 1 | couch - the enemy still pursuing him, and making a rush at
1285 2 | following up of my favorite pursuits. Oh! how it used to delight
1286 1(6) | comet, and Seneca in the Quaest: Natur. ~~
1287 1(4) | had filled the office of Quaestor. ~~
1288 2 | impersonating all these qualifications) should have been born expressly
1289 2 | governest the world in thy quasi-divine person Rome expects thee
1290 3 | with which a Tantalus is to quench his thirst, and for the
1291 4 | hiding-place art thou in quest, with so troubled a countenance,
1292 5 | thou call my fidelity into question? ~ NERO. Why wouldst thou
1293 1 | hesitate to hasten with quickened steps to the bedchamber
1294 1 | the craft shoving off, was quickly borne upon the sea, and
1295 3 | always have before thy eyes a quiet resting-place in the regions
1296 1 | its sacred associations quits the scene, in trembling
1297 4 | nursling, that thou art quitting the marriage couch of thy
1298 5(12)| TE QUOQUE LIVI. - The tribune Livius
1299 2(8) | PLAUTI SULLAEQUE. - Plautus Rabellius had been exiled into Asia,
1300 1 | progeny of Mars, and the true racial blood flowed in the veins
1301 1 | Eastern couch, with his radiating flakes of fire, and is giving
1302 5 | No! they shall be made to raise their eyes with reverential
1303 2 | seems to rule paramount, and rampant wickedness seems to take
1304 2 | whatever else is of lofty rank (and derives prestige from
1305 3 | task of a Sisyphus, and the rapacious vulture of a Tityus, as
1306 5 | not cleave the air with my rapid wings spread out, and fly
1307 4 | waking moments, such is the rapidity, and wonderfulness of human
1308 3 | wheel, which whirls round rapidly the body of an Ixion! He
1309 5 | sword. ~ NERO. What! that rascally rabble that dared to seek
1310 5 | peaceably, but the restless rascals must be seized with some
1311 2 | mind at once, lest in some rash foolish moment, thou mightest
1312 2 | unanimous vote of the people, ratified by the decrees of the senators,
1313 1 | hand, after having been ravished by a cruel tyrant (Sextus
1314 1 | report is this, that has just reached our ears - we wish that
1315 5 | to me - Get the craft in readiness, unfurl the sails, and commit
1316 2 | thing to be a downright reality! ~ NERO. Dost thou mean
1317 1 | eyes, wonderstruck, and realize what remains of a once most
1318 4 | handed over to the dark realms of night, I went off to
1319 3 | demented Octavia, canst thou reasonably hope for such things, mindful
1320 4 | fidelity and affection, Nurse, reassures me, and has given me back
1321 1 | Tyrrhenian Sea; the sailors receiving their orders, hastened to
1322 | recent
1323 2 | himself, who penetrates the recesses of the angry sea, the kingdom
1324 3 | on those who were worthy recipients - that populace decided,
1325 1 | bright day. Let me pursue the recital of my woes burdened as I
1326 4 | exalted couch wilt thou now recline! The senate were fairly
1327 4 | inspired thereby, might recoil upon my enemies; and, Nurse,
1328 1 | Augustus, (that now is) having reconciled her matrimonial feud, do
1329 4 | gracefully shaded by the red veil (worn by recent brides,
1330 3 | universally shunned, ruined, and reduced to absolute want! Alas!
1331 5(12)| Drusus, established great reforms in the laws. He was assassinated
1332 1 | its downfall! ~ NUR. Do refrain from a renewal of thy grief,
1333 1 | in a state of alarm takes refuge in my couch - the enemy
1334 1 | so harmlessly from thy regal hand? Why does thy hand
1335 5 | 877-982]~The Chorus sings regarding popular favor, which has
1336 2 | proscription tables, which registered the names of those that
1337 1 | Jupiter, and the mighty Juno reigns supreme in the ethereal
1338 5 | Rome is very different, she rejoices only in the slaughter of
1339 3 | tears, on a day of such rejoicing and gladness to the city -
1340 2 | But that emperor should relax his desires sometimes. ~
1341 1 | a state of bodily repose relaxes my tired frame, and sleep
1342 2 | which draws from their reluctant lips, those cringing supplications,
1343 1 | words of sympathy, they remark: “What does it avail thee
1344 2 | Clemency is the most powerful remedy, in counteracting any danger
1345 1 | mind (from the repulsive reminiscences). Light is now more odious
1346 2(7) | REMOTUS. - Seneca had been accused
1347 1 | pitied, but that does not remove nor even lessen the incubus
1348 1 | Many of the crew venture to render aid to their former empress,
1349 4(10)| SENECAE. - I think that the rendering I have given of the word “
1350 1 | sea! Augusta (Agrippina) rends her garments, tears her
1351 1 | NUR. Do refrain from a renewal of thy grief, and of those
1352 1 | further sleep and my grief is renewed, and the alarms, as to my
1353 2 | commands, I will forthwith repair to the camp. ~ SEN. It is
1354 5 | audacity to venture upon a repetition of those outrages at some
1355 1 | The confidence, which she reposes in me, is in some sort a
1356 2 | to the confidence, thou reposest in that fickle deity, Fortune,
1357 2 | pledge of my affection, and a representative part of my ownself! Therefore
1358 3 | and all inscriptions which represented me, on pain of death, throughout
1359 4(10)| given of the word “Culpa”, represents the poet’s meaning. ~~
1360 3 | Spare me, Claudius, thy reproaches; he shall be given up, and
1361 2 | will always continue to be reproduced by this agreeable means, (
1362 4 | property of the mind, that it reproduces, during sleep, those very
1363 1 | distressing to my mind (from the repulsive reminiscences). Light is
1364 2 | youth, on the other hand, requires more governing than that
1365 1 | towards me, and she is now requiring at the hands of a husband,
1366 5 | has withheld from her the requisite power, so that she should
1367 3 | all this, too, that as a requital, he should eventually take
1368 1 | that his mother has been rescued from the waves and is still
1369 1 | consumed on the funeral pile, resembling as thou didst, the winged
1370 3 | rouse any feelings of bitter resentment in the heart of the Emperor,
1371 2 | strict morality, and modest reserve should be, what ought to
1372 3 | long time hast thou been reserved for such a marriage as this (
1373 5 | some few, who, for a time, resisted to the last, urged on by
1374 1 | well-intentioned advice, nor can her resolute strong-mindedness, be in
1375 1 | harbours, and the waves soon resounded with the plash of their
1376 2 | greedy hands, the immense resources of the world (riches) so
1377 2 | surround, and far and wide, the resplendent ornament of the firmament.
1378 4 | to, has shone brightly in response to thy prayers and desires!
1379 3 | longer be called upon to rest my eyes on the visage of
1380 3 | before thy eyes a quiet resting-place in the regions below, where
1381 4 | household of the Divus, the restitution of conjugal rights by her
1382 5 | and were most desirous of restoring to thee thy country - thy
1383 1 | minds of the people. ~ NUR. Restrain the expressions of thy angered
1384 1 | deep grief, nor does her restrained anger suffice to conceal
1385 1 | even lessen the incubus resulting, therefrom - (the weight
1386 3 | Gallus and Aceronia), the results of the cruel crime of a
1387 5 | death that is the admitted retribution ordained for such deeds.
1388 4 | monument was shining forth and revealed the likeness of Poppaea,
1389 4 | offeredst up (with such reverence) the frankincense to the
1390 5 | to raise their eyes with reverential respect at the divine face
1391 2 | do what is right, but the reverse, when it is not so. ~ NERO.
1392 2 | luminary, to contemplate the revolutions of the heavenly bodies,
1393 1 | also! Behold! as I have richly deserved, let me, unburied,
1394 5 | at thy words - a sudden rigor has frozen up my veins!
1395 Arg | divorce he had to put down the riots amongst the populace amidst
1396 4 | these nuptials have given rise, and it is that, which is
1397 2 | of virtue, and by such a road is heaven only to be arrived
1398 2 | perils of envy, amongst the rocky coasts of the Corsican sea,
1399 3 | his pride, gild the very roofs of his palace, and the armed
1400 2 | inspection in their very Rostra, (a place in the Senate,
1401 2 | a place in the Senate, Rostrum) nor was it allowable for
1402 4 | then amongst them, my son (Rufus who was ordered, to be drowned
1403 3 | be universally shunned, ruined, and reduced to absolute
1404 4 | starry firmament, which he is ruling, and seek the pleasure of
1405 1 | pursuing him, and making a rush at him, as he is clinging
1406 5 | possession of her sons, rushed on to the commission of
1407 4 | likeness of Poppaea, was ruthlessly dashed to the ground by
1408 Arg | hated, and marries Poppaea Sabina; in consequence of which
1409 2 | was quite observant of the sacredness of the laws! by and bye,
1410 4 | POP. Oh! Nurse, suffering sadly from my harrowing thoughts,
1411 3 | 646-689]~Octavia, feigning sadness, prays the populace, who
1412 2 | Emperor. ~ SEN. But it is a safer kind of protection that
1413 2 | is presided over by that salacious Goddess, Venus! Luxury,
1414 3 | suppliant humility, may seek to salute with the kiss of submission,
1415 2 | solemn ordinances of piety sanction it. ~ NERO. Shall I be the
1416 3 | kiss of submission, that sanguinary right hand of his, and Tiridates
1417 2 | dreadful slaughter, the sanious filthy discharges still
1418 2 | its earlier periods, when Saturn held the dominion of the
1419 2 | and the grieving senators saw the heads of the slain,
1420 1 | sacred associations quits the scene, in trembling horror! and
1421 5 | acknowledged fidelity to my sceptre, have installed him in his
1422 5(11)| him, was consequently a scion of one of the principal
1423 5(11)| Cornelia, the daughter of Scipio Africanus, and being sprung
1424 5(15)| The Tauri were a people of Scythia, and they sacrificed strangers
1425 1 | abodes (during the nidifying season) and let me exceed too the
1426 5 | first, of love to a husband, secondly, a guarantee of unbroken
1427 2 | for it to cool down), to secure tranquillity for the world,
1428 2 | my nuptial couch with his seductive fires! ~ SEN. The indignation
1429 1 | treachery, whilst she is seeking to gain imperial power through
1430 5 | boatmen, before she was seen to be hacked about by the
1431 2 | emperor to his senses, thou seest! (that the emperor was beaten). ~
1432 1 | the emperor, treacherously seizing upon the person of his parent,
1433 2 | too! and altogether it is self-evident to me, from her unsociable
1434 4(10)| CULPA SENECAE. - I think that the rendering
1435 1 | plaints of a daughter - if any sense or feeling is to be looked
1436 1 | eschewing privacy, and her angry sentiments are quite on a par with
1437 1 | duly surrounded with their serpents, that avenging Erinnys was
1438 1 | unworthy, too indifferent and servile, and inveighs against the
1439 4 | magnificent palace thou hast settled down, and upon what an exalted
1440 1 | ravished by a cruel tyrant (Sextus Tarquinius). At the hands
1441 4 | thy head, so gracefully shaded by the red veil (worn by
1442 1 | remain only, now, as the shadow of a once great name! ~
1443 1 | that deity, who so often shakes the earth with his frightful
1444 4 | look, I beseech thee, and shaking off all these fabrics of
1445 1 | matrimonial union with Silius (a sham marriage), thinking nothing
1446 1 | expecting another arrival in the shape of offspring, the cruel
1447 1 | himself, (Cupid) in thy shapely form and comely face - the
1448 1 | lottery, of fortune, and now shares the couch of her husband,
1449 2 | the example set by Juno, sharing the nuptial-bed of her brother (
1450 4 | hide it, henceforth in the sheath (the throat of the spectre
1451 2 | last, the tired conqueror sheathed his truculent sword, absolutely
1452 1 | which I know thou only sheddest out of affection for the
1453 5 | they are carried away by sheer audacity, and in another
1454 1 | whom thy fidelity gave its sheltering protection: but my fear
1455 4 | enough that the Phrygian shepherd (Paris) should have been
1456 2 | is an admirable thing to shine conspicuously amongst the
1457 3 | CHOR. Behold! the day shines forth at last, so long,
1458 3 | which I had to bewail my shipwreck - it had not been an object
1459 2 | being doomed to perish, shortly after - and thus, incestuous
1460 1 | ships a heavy sea! A great shout, thereupon is raised towards
1461 1 | their oars, and the craft shoving off, was quickly borne upon
1462 2 | parent, and out of it, soon showing themselves, came the dreadful
1463 2 | battle-inspiring blasts of the shrill war-trumpet! and the people
1464 2 | truculent look - I quite shudder in my very soul, as to what
1465 2 | swords of the triumvirs, shuddering as they cast their eyes
1466 3 | he shall be universally shunned, ruined, and reduced to
1467 2 | which lurk beneath that shyness. ~ NERO. Indeed! I have
1468 2 | plains of Philippi, and the Sicilian sea drew their ships into
1469 3 | as is the sight, on all sides, model images of Poppaea,
1470 1 | donned the horns of the Sidonian bull, (when he carried off
1471 2 | belonged to them, nor to sigh even, when the forum became
1472 1 | of loyalty lurked in the silent hearts of the sturdy Roman
1473 2 | children. - Another age (the silver age) supervened, but the
1474 2 | be fallen upon unawares. Simple exile, I perceive, has not
1475 2 | of his times, praises the simplicity of his former life, and
1476 4 | world; and now our minds are simply horrified at what he can
1477 5 | OCTAVIA. [877-982]~The Chorus sings regarding popular favor,
1478 1 | she plunges into the sea, sinks, but soon rises again to
1479 3 | for the cruel task of a Sisyphus, and the rapacious vulture
1480 2 | held the dominion of the skies (the golden age). Then it
1481 2 | the brazen age) produced a skilled progeny - one that applied
1482 4 | worship of the Deities with slaughtered victims, that such threatening
1483 2 | flowed from their savage slaughters - and the thirst for gold
1484 1(4) | senses. Poppaea was not a slave, but a woman of good descent.
1485 1 | shouldst undergo an odious slavery, or that cruel lust should
1486 1 | even been surmounted, he slew with his sword, and which
1487 1 | troubling her head in the slightest degree, as to the lawlessness
1488 1 | torch, (tail) just where slow-moving Boötes, stiff as it were
1489 1 | They drove out, without the smallest hesitation, haughty, insufferable
1490 2 | common to everyone - and the smiling earth freely disclosed its
1491 1 | ambition of that woman, and her smooth, unsuspected treachery,
1492 1 | low, fallen by the wicked snares of a wife (destroyed by
1493 5 | dying in my own paternal soil, although my country has
1494 2 | courses traced out by that solar luminary, to contemplate
1495 2 | this marriage, nor will the solemn ordinances of piety sanction
1496 2 | thing to be granted, which solicitations fail to obtain? ~ SEN. It
1497 | something
1498 1 | hast calmed thyself down somewhat, just try and prevail on
1499 3 | infernal regions, a cruel soothsayer carrying before her the
1500 1(3) | ELECTRA. - Sophocles has alluded copiously to
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