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1501 5 | preparing to accumulate my sorrows, by my slaughter, as a climax
1502 2 | NERO. It must be, indeed, a sorry departure from the methods
1503 1 | thunderbolts and terrifies our very souls with his awful igneous displays
1504 3 | sad mental tortures may be spared me - the apprehensions of
1505 4 | yellow golden shower. - Sparta may brag of the beauty of
1506 1 | her in the face, as she is speaking) she plunges into the sea,
1507 3 | predicts. - (Shade of Agrippina speaks.)~THE Earth being opened,
1508 4 | given me back my powers of speech - Alas! Why do the Ghosts,
1509 5 | frozen up my veins! I am spell-bound! ~ NERO. Dost thou hesitate,
1510 4 | beauty has captivated, in spite of Seneca’s objections, 10
1511 2 | Love is a potent force springing from the imagination, and
1512 4 | the Gods, and when thou sprinkledst the sacred altars with the
1513 2 | mankind are inclined to spurn a man who is kind, gentle,
1514 2 | so that they may be only squanderingly got rid of! But, behold,
1515 5 | expectations of anyone as regards stableness or durability! and the coming
1516 2 | from others. ~ NERO. To stamp out an enemy, is the highest
1517 1 | OCT. No! a concubine will stand in the way of that. ~ NUR.
1518 4 | been pulled down from their standing place, trailed them along
1519 1 | boy, till lately the great star of the Universe, the prop
1520 2 | with the fear of death staring them in the face, and fled
1521 1 | an instinctive hatred to start with, of any one descended
1522 5 | extremest privations, bitter starvation with weeping and sorrow!
1523 4 | display of madness. Whatever statue of Poppaea, sculptured out
1524 4 | dragged the pieces of the statues, which had been pulled down
1525 3 | the world. But why do I stay longer, why do I cease from
1526 2 | oughtest to know that each day steals away a portion of the beauty
1527 5 | commander of that craft steer for the coast of Pandataria
1528 2 | Nero is approaching with a step suggestive of something
1529 1 | to hasten with quickened steps to the bedchamber of Octavia? ~
1530 2 | if I am prompt with the stern sword, and employ it against
1531 1 | where slow-moving Boötes, stiff as it were with the Arctic
1532 3 | gods, nor I, even then, stifled the persecuting hatred of
1533 2 | palace with the celestial stock, descended from a Divus, (
1534 4 | out of the purest marble stood in their way, or whatever
1535 5 | the humble roof, but the storms of fate shake the lofty
1536 1 | Juno did. ~ OCT. Let the stormy seas seek cordial companionship
1537 1 | we wish that if such a story be wrongfully believed,
1538 1 | emerged from the Stygian streams, and grant aid to thy daughter,
1539 4 | trailed them along the streets, with cords, and after kicking
1540 1(2) | not a canon held in the strictest observance in those days
1541 4 | bring about all this cruel strife? it is of no good! Cupid
1542 1 | impelled by her fear, she strikes out with her hands, but
1543 5 | We could adduce many more striking examples, if our griefs
1544 1(3) | weeping of Electra, and her strong desire for the return of
1545 1 | advice, nor can her resolute strong-mindedness, be in any way brought under
1546 1 | Alas! a sorrowing voice has struck my ears! and why should
1547 1 | tired out, gives up the struggle. - But a great deal of loyalty
1548 1 | hands, as she is feebly struggling with her own arms, and encourage
1549 1 | the silent hearts of the sturdy Roman sailors, this awful
1550 1 | think. ~ NUR. No! rather subdue that fierce man, by wheedlings
1551 1(4) | SUBJECTA FAMULAE. - Seneca constantly
1552 1 | the jungle, before I can subjugate the adamant heart of the
1553 5 | Fates! Nor does any thing sublunary answer the expectations
1554 3 | salute with the kiss of submission, that sanguinary right hand
1555 1 | woman is now evidently, more submissive and more subdued in her
1556 1 | enemy! However, the wise submissiveness of an exalted wife like
1557 5 | this same woman, having submitted to the unlawful advances
1558 5 | terrible crime, and its subsequent punishment! Julia, 14 her
1559 2 | and the Senate should be subservient to my authority, forasmuch
1560 1 | she set about, with great success, has actually dared to shed
1561 2 | Goddess, Venus! Luxury, that successful conqueror, some while since,
1562 1 | their aid, ply the waves successfully - others reach the shore
1563 5 | a guarantee of unbroken succession to the imperial throne;
1564 5 | considerable time, and eventually succumbed, as the victim of a cruel
1565 3 | as a little baby boy, and suckled thee at my breasts, that
1566 3 | hast died as my innocent suckling, without any knowledge of
1567 4 | the earth seemed to be suddenly divided, and an immense
1568 2(8) | Tacitus, Lib. 12. Annal., and Suetonius apud Neronem, Cap. 15. ~~
1569 1 | with care the words thou sufferest to escape thy lips. ~ OCT.
1570 1 | murder of his mother, and suffers no delay in the fulfilment
1571 1 | does her restrained anger suffice to conceal her terrible
1572 2 | her confiding love is not sufficiently shown, she is then so much
1573 5 | from offering me any more suggestions, or advancing any more intercessions,
1574 2 | approaching with a step suggestive of something out of the
1575 1(5) | not killed, but committed suicide, the same day that Claudius
1576 2(8) | PLAUTI SULLAEQUE. - Plautus Rabellius had
1577 2 | outside show, hast thou summoned me from my former position,
1578 2 | would be in a very silly superstitious way, that I should fear
1579 2 | Another age (the silver age) supervened, but the race of mankind
1580 1 | soul, lamentations would supply me with the necessary strength
1581 1 | subject, 4 it cannot be supposed that I can enjoy my life
1582 1(1) | her lustful propensities, supposedly, I should think, suffering
1583 3 | indignation must be outwardly suppressed. But where is the ancient
1584 2 | position, with which I was supremely contented? Is it, that from
1585 1 | soon rises again to the surface, and impelled by her fear,
1586 5 | have grown exultant and surfeited with all the benefits that
1587 5 | shore, that, at last, the surging wrath in my breast may be
1588 1 | the waves had even been surmounted, he slew with his sword,
1589 1 | oft-repeated plaints, and let me surpass the Alcyons (Ceyx and Alcyon)
1590 4 | with flames, unless Nero surrenders this new wife of his, to
1591 1 | prevail on thy husband’s susceptibilities, if he has any, and assume
1592 1 | Claudius, to whose imperial sway the whole world was once
1593 4 | with fillthy mud! And the swearing, and cursing, that went
1594 2 | the air aback, with their swift arrows, to bring into subjection
1595 1 | others reach the shore by swimming - many are immerged, and
1596 2 | face, and fled from the swords of the triumvirs, shuddering
1597 2 | unsociable tone, and manner, the symptoms of absolute hatred towards
1598 3 | to fly for their lives? (Syphax, Perses, Jugurtha, Herodes)
1599 2 | eyes at the proscription tables, which registered the names
1600 1 | indications, by which, as if tacitly confessing it, she openly
1601 1 | its ominous fiery torch, (tail) just where slow-moving
1602 5 | witness! But what am I now talking about in my madness? Let
1603 4 | tells the truth when it talks of the furtive amours of
1604 3 | punishment with which a Tantalus is to quench his thirst,
1605 1 | although affected with the tardiness of old age, hesitate to
1606 3 | his throat shall be a very target for the javelin of the enemy,
1607 3 | thirst, and for the cruel task of a Sisyphus, and the rapacious
1608 5(15)| TAURORUM. - The Tauri were a people
1609 5(12)| TE QUOQUE LIVI. - The tribune
1610 3 | household gods, with such tearful eyes? hasten away rather
1611 4 | Poppaea.~IF garrulous report tells the truth when it talks
1612 1 | completely overcome the temper of Jupiter, and the mighty
1613 2 | that thy commands should be tempered with justice. ~ NERO. I
1614 4 | ruining the Greeks with their ten years’ war - he it was who
1615 3 | Poppaea, by this time, is the tenant in possession, whilst the
1616 1 | Augustus, with his vicious tendencies and confirmed immoralities! ~
1617 1 | night, before my mental tenderness could harmonize with the
1618 2 | opinion, that all things are tending in a direction for the worse.~
1619 4 | henceforward be permanent in their tenure - then, as regards why thy
1620 2 | the vulgar herd dictate terms to an emperor. ~ SEN. That
1621 1 | another Juno, although a terrestrial one, thou art the sister
1622 4 | amidst, every now and then, a terrific blowing of trumpets, and
1623 4 | is, I was perplexed and terrified by the doleful visions of
1624 1 | frightful thunderbolts and terrifies our very souls with his
1625 5 | their incestuous hands and terrifying language! No! the punishment
1626 2 | and defined the limits of territorial holdings, and built new
1627 4 | side! An Emperor all over, testifying with joy in his very carriage
1628 1 | troubles are greater, than ever theirs were - it is always a mother, 1
1629 1 | mother that is the prominent theme in my lamentations, the
1630 | themselves
1631 1 | lessen the incubus resulting, therefrom - (the weight of troubles). ~
1632 | thereupon
1633 4 | manifested, when he took Thetis to wife, as she emerged
1634 1 | Silius (a sham marriage), thinking nothing at all about the
1635 2 | considered inoffensive, and the third (the brazen age) produced
1636 4 | I have before lain down, thoroughly fagged out - I then beheld
1637 1 | destroyed thee. oh! my father a thousand times to be pitied, whom
1638 5 | have gone through! What Thracian nightingale will ever send
1639 1 | that Clotho had broken the threads of my life, with her venerable
1640 1 | thee to carry out such a threat. ~ OCT. Long continued grief,
1641 2 | others, used those weapons, threateningly, with plunder, only, for
1642 5 | although late in the day, threatens to be visited upon her,
1643 3 | of their emperor and the thresholds of his palace, the very
1644 5 | succession to the imperial throne; by and bye, exile, stripes,
1645 4 | tremor into which I was thrown, has made my limbs tremble
1646 4 | why thy Emperor husband thrust his sword into the throat
1647 1 | earth with his frightful thunderbolts and terrifies our very souls
1648 4 | the furtive amours of the Thunderer, and the love affairs in
1649 1 | ethereal marriage couch of the Thundering Jove! Nor does Jupiter,
1650 1 | her uncontrollable grief thwarts all my well-intentioned
1651 2 | devoted services of a son (Tiberius), canonized after death
1652 1 | was not a brother, by the ties of blood, Nero became a
1653 1 | the plains, and the fierce tiger of the jungle, before I
1654 1 | of the looseness of its timbers, and it ships a heavy sea!
1655 3 | sanguinary right hand of his, and Tiridates may throw his kingdom, and
1656 1 | wandering starry group, and Titan is rising from his Eastern
1657 1 | at that time assumed the title of “Augustus.”) Conquer
1658 3 | the rapacious vulture of a Tityus, as well as the wheel, which
1659 2 | for my marriage, namely to-morrow! ~
1660 | together
1661 4 | worn by recent brides, as tokens of modesty, and wifely subjection),
1662 1 | one of his followers is told off, and carries out his
1663 2 | me, from her unsociable tone, and manner, the symptoms
1664 4 | marriage couch, and what thou tookest for a funeral pile, whilst
1665 5 | by chains, and being thus tormented for a long time, the once
1666 3 | do pray, that sad mental tortures may be spared me - the apprehensions
1667 2 | temples. Fortune, however, tossed him about both by sea and
1668 1 | bedchamber of Octavia? ~ OCT. Trace these tears to their proper
1669 2 | the awe-inspiring courses traced out by that solar luminary,
1670 2 | bodies, and the alternate tracks of the sun (indicating day
1671 4 | from their standing place, trailed them along the streets,
1672 3 | his palace, and the armed trained bands (cohort) may vigilantly
1673 2 | to cool down), to secure tranquillity for the world, peace to
1674 1 | credit for her share in the transaction, even after her death, and
1675 4 | swan - at another time, transforming himself into a fierce bull,
1676 4 | not very patient, in his transports of anger, or easy to be
1677 1 | outcome - murders - wholesale treacheries, the terrible grasping for
1678 1 | fleeting advantages of the treacherous palace, can now behold with
1679 1 | crime, when the emperor, treacherously seizing upon the person
1680 4 | to the Nurse; the Nurse treating the dream as nonsense, consoles
1681 4 | seized with rage about this treatment of Octavia, and being wild
1682 1 | the waves soon springs a tremendous leak, letting in the sea,
1683 4 | for sleep! The horrible tremor into which I was thrown,
1684 1 | through my side! Then the tremors come over me, and an intense
1685 4 | Prefects, in a state of trepidation, are calling together (mustering)
1686 5(12)| TE QUOQUE LIVI. - The tribune Livius Drusus, established
1687 5 | them! but it would be a trifling thing for them to be punished
1688 2 | an enemy, is the highest triumph an Emperor could wish for. ~
1689 3 | the couch, of which the triumphant Poppaea, by this time, is
1690 2 | fled from the swords of the triumvirs, shuddering as they cast
1691 5 | pray, to the temples of Trivia, even (Diana) Aulis itself,
1692 1 | she had already, and not troubling her head in the slightest
1693 1 | progeny of Mars, and the true racial blood flowed in the
1694 1 | been falsely accused, by a trumped up charge of fictitious
1695 4 | then, a terrific blowing of trumpets, and the mother of my husband (
1696 2 | Heaven, with that sacred trust, ruled the earth with mildness -
1697 4 | garrulous report tells the truth when it talks of the furtive
1698 2 | sea and land, through many trying vicissitudes of war, as
1699 1 | of our outraged ancestors Tullia, the wife of Tarquinius,
1700 5 | rage, on account of the tumultuous rising of the populace,
1701 1 | drives his wagon at each turn of the night continually;
1702 3 | how my fondest wishes have turned out! Oh! thou son of mine,
1703 5 | conveyance. Piety has no tutelar deity now, and the Gods
1704 2(7) | return and made him the tutor of Nero. ~~
1705 5 | perched on some delicate twig, should I then be able to
1706 4 | beauty this daughter of Tyndarus, and who brought about dreadful
1707 1 | there did exist the Roman type of bravery amongst our ancestors,
1708 2 | insists on carrying out his tyrannical plans, and appoints the
1709 1 | submit to the imperious tyranny of a step-mother,2 her hostile
1710 3 | to him to behold, he is ubiquitous in his presence, he menaces,
1711 5(14)| nevertheless, exiled and ultimately suffered death. ~~
1712 2 | ruler of the heavens, is unable to drive away from himself,
1713 5 | however, is by no means unacceptable or hateful to me - Get the
1714 2 | people of those days were unacquainted with the weapons used in
1715 3 | hands of mine have gone unavenged, and the fatal craft intended
1716 2 | I should be fallen upon unawares. Simple exile, I perceive,
1717 5 | secondly, a guarantee of unbroken succession to the imperial
1718 5 | unlawful advances of an underling (the marriage with Silius),
1719 2 | regards her birth and her unequalled beauty, a woman to whom
1720 2 | where my inclinations were unfettered and where I felt that I
1721 5 | eloquence, moral courage, and of unflinching severity, in their administration
1722 1 | be a long way off! ~ OCT. Unfortunately, thy wishes, Nurse, have
1723 5 | the craft in readiness, unfurl the sails, and commit her
1724 4 | great pomp and with the universal acquiescence of every deity
1725 3 | of the enemy, he shall be universally shunned, ruined, and reduced
1726 1 | covered the very seas, before unknown to the Romans, with his
1727 | unless
1728 2 | which had hitherto been unmolested and protected by the waves,
1729 1 | Ocean hitherto free, and unnavigated over, was brought under
1730 1 | constrained to afford an unopposed passage for our Roman fleets!
1731 2 | anything more than that, as an unrevenged emperor? that my very blood
1732 1 | be embarked on board an unseaworthy craft, veritably only one
1733 1 | face besmeared with the unsightly blood! Oh! this access of
1734 2 | self-evident to me, from her unsociable tone, and manner, the symptoms
1735 1 | that woman, and her smooth, unsuspected treachery, whilst she is
1736 4 | authority in good faith, and upheld by one-minded approval. ~
1737 4 | with the gladsome wine! the upper part of thy head, so gracefully
1738 2 | very soul, as to what is uppermost in his mind! ~
1739 5 | time, resisted to the last, urged on by their foolish obstinacy. ~
1740 1 | done her? And what earthly use has her chaste modesty been
1741 1 | devoted affection is quite useless, in as much as her uncontrollable
1742 1(4) | FAMULAE. - Seneca constantly uses this word and in very different
1743 2 | of something out of the usual way, by his truculent look -
1744 1 | let not a fresh wife, usurp the marriage-bed of our
1745 1 | whose very empire he has usurped, and who glories in having
1746 1(1) | suffering from the “furor uterinus”, which was not very mercifully
1747 5 | I will set going! Fire, utter ruin, shall weigh down this
1748 4 | impeded my very powers of utterance - and my heart palpitates
1749 5 | ACT V.~
1750 1 | into the palace to take her vacant place! She has defiled the
1751 2 | those praiseworthy deeds of valor of his: how many nobles,
1752 2 | Caesar, who had never been vanquished in battle, the conqueror
1753 1 | that I can enjoy my life vastly! My heart is perpetually
1754 4 | gracefully shaded by the red veil (worn by recent brides,
1755 1 | threads of my life, with her venerable fingers, before, ever plunged
1756 3 | within the proximity of my venerated household gods, nor I, even
1757 2 | longer held in respect or veneration, fled the earth, and avoided
1758 3 | torch, and the sword of vengeance! ~
1759 2 | ornament of the firmament. Now, verily the world has arrived at
1760 1 | name of Augustus, with his vicious tendencies and confirmed
1761 2 | land, through many trying vicissitudes of war, as long as ever
1762 1 | cruel lust should carry off victoriously its wicked prize! Sad war,
1763 1(6) | VIDIMUS COELO JUBAR. - Tacitus alludes
1764 3 | trained bands (cohort) may vigilantly guard the portals of their
1765 1 | manes, oh! Virgin thou! (Virginia) who wast slain by the hands
1766 1 | for her? What good has her virginity done her? And what earthly
1767 3 | upon to rest my eyes on the visage of my cruel husband, I shall
1768 4 | victims, that such threatening visitations of the night, and the period
1769 5 | the day, threatens to be visited upon her, now that she is
1770 1 | NUR. Alas! a sorrowing voice has struck my ears! and
1771 2 | and the low-toned fawning voices which mask all this affected
1772 2 | pleasure accrues to its votaries, for as much, too, as the
1773 2 | and it is by the unanimous vote of the people, ratified
1774 1 | Surely a merciful deity will vouchsafe better times for the one
1775 2 | sprung from the loins of Vulcan - the fact is, Love is a
1776 2 | methods of governing, when the vulgar herd dictate terms to an
1777 3 | Sisyphus, and the rapacious vulture of a Tityus, as well as
1778 5 | such a funeral aspect, not wade in the blood arising from
1779 5 | which caught thee up, and wafted thee away, Iphigenia, surrounded,
1780 1 | Arctic cold, drives his wagon at each turn of the night
1781 4 | forth the most distressing wailings, and amidst, every now and
1782 4 | troubled about during our waking moments, such is the rapidity,
1783 4 | wifely subjection), and Nero, walking forth, amidst the enthusiastic
1784 2 | battle-inspiring blasts of the shrill war-trumpet! and the people of those
1785 5 | should I then be able to warble my tristful strains from
1786 2 | fairly shattered by the warlike persistency of the combatants!
1787 2 | 437-592]~The philosopher warns his patron Nero to no purpose,
1788 1 | and let fire mingle with water, let the very heavens descend
1789 2 | and avoided their savage ways, and looked with abhorrence
1790 1 | life, and in my motherly weakness have handed over to thee
1791 1 | proud she may be of her wealth of physical attractions -
1792 1 | murder, to bury the cruel weapon into her very womb. “This
1793 1 | sleep invades the lids so wearied with weeping - Sometimes
1794 1 | OCTAVIA. [1-34]~Octavia, weary of her existence, bewails
1795 1 | Agrippina, as a sort of wedding present and that noble young
1796 5 | punishments, and perpetually weighed down by some oppressive
1797 1 | uncontrollable grief thwarts all my well-intentioned advice, nor can her resolute
1798 4 | and why are thy cheeks so wet with weeping? Surely, this
1799 1 | subdue that fierce man, by wheedlings and caresses. ~ OCT. That
1800 3 | a Tityus, as well as the wheel, which whirls round rapidly
1801 | whether
1802 1 | affords her; to gratify whose whims and caprices, that son has
1803 3 | well as the wheel, which whirls round rapidly the body of
1804 | whither
1805 | WHOEVER
1806 1 | the outcome - murders - wholesale treacheries, the terrible
1807 1 | her cruel crimes - she who wickedly drove her cruel chariot
1808 2 | stars surround, and far and wide, the resplendent ornament
1809 Arg | brother Germanicus, and the widow of Cn. Domitius Aenobarbus
1810 4 | up, by means of hammers wielded by savage arms; they then
1811 4 | as tokens of modesty, and wifely subjection), and Nero, walking
1812 1 | gained by the treachery and wiles of a woman, and he that
1813 2 | kind Fates have actually willed that such a one (impersonating
1814 2 | madness is now arming the willing instruments of crime (assassins)
1815 2 | should pretend to serve me willingly! What downright madness
1816 4 | altars with the gladsome wine! the upper part of thy head,
1817 1 | of an enemy! However, the wise submissiveness of an exalted
1818 2 | to the camp. ~ SEN. It is wiser for thee to determine nothing
1819 5 | but yet that nature has withheld from her the requisite power,
1820 2 | scarcely tolerate being the witnesses of this marriage, nor will
1821 1 | pursue the recital of my woes burdened as I am with so
1822 2 | slaughter! Divus Augustus, who won his way to Heaven, by those
1823 4 | at the same moment, and I wondered equally at this, my own
1824 4 | fantastic appearances. Thou wonderest, no doubt, that thou sawest
1825 4 | such is the rapidity, and wonderfulness of human thought, altogether
1826 1 | igneous displays and novel wonders (fresh prodigies). But I
1827 1 | behold with his own eyes, wonderstruck, and realize what remains
1828 4 | event has thus changed thy wonted expression of countenance?
1829 2 | artificer of that immense work, has produced nothing grander,
1830 4 | shaded by the red veil (worn by recent brides, as tokens
1831 2 | reach the stars, and he is worshipped now as a very god in the
1832 5 | into question? ~ NERO. Why wouldst thou appear inclined to
1833 3 | cruel tyrant began to grow wrathful against the very name and
1834 1 | after the craft had become a wreck, and the difficulty of the
1835 1 | action of the waves, and be wrecked) and that mother whom, after
1836 5 | and now, as an unfortunate wretch, banished from the marriage
1837 1 | stepped in and impregnated my wretched mother with those lustful
1838 1 | that if such a story be wrongfully believed, although it may
1839 4 | divided, and an immense yawning gulf lay open before me,
1840 | ye
1841 1 | to last for many a long year in the minds of the people. ~
1842 4 | amorous intent, in that yellow golden shower. - Sparta
1843 | Yes
1844 2 | whom Venus herself would yield the palm, or even the wife
1845 3 | being slain by the sword, I yielded up my burdened existence,
1846 2 | laying down precepts for youngsters. ~ SEN. The ardor of the
1847 5 | for the light and balmy Zephyrs, which caught thee up, and
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