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A59189	Troades, or, The royal captives a tragedy / written originally in Latin by Lucius Annæus Seneca ... ; English'd by Edward Sherburne, Esq. ; with annotations.; Troades. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2528; ESTC R13947	96,897	136

ibid. The Port belonging to it being Pagasae the place where Argo was built ibid. Ithaca call'd a Rock by way of Diminution 96 It s modern Name Iatacho ibid. Distant 6 or 7 Miles from Dulichium which the modern Greeks now call Thiaki ibid. Iupiter Hercaus his Temple the Sacrarium of Troy 6 The place where the Trojan Kings were inaugurated ibid. At whose Altar Priam is said to have been slain ibid. K. KNees embraced by Suppliants 72 Reason of that Custom among the Antients ibid. L. LYrnessus a City of Troas the Birth-place of Hippodamia or Briseis Daughter of Briseus 27 M. MElibaea a City ennobled by the Birth of Philoctetes to who●… Hercules bequeathed his fatal Shafts that were to be employ'●… against Troy 8●… M●…mnon Son of Tithon Priam's Brother and Aurora or of Titho●… and Cissia 3●… Brought 10000 Aethiopians and 10000 Susians to the Relief 〈◊〉 Troy ibid Slain by Achilles Pag. 30 Two of the same Name mentioned by Philostratus the one an Aethiopian Prince the other a Trojan ibid. M●…don a City of Peloponnesus on the Borders of Messenia 83 By the Turks at this day call'd Moytune being a Bishop's See under the Arch-bishop of Patras 84 Mycenae a City of Argis the Birth place of Agamemnon 95 Whence so called ibid. It s modern Names ibid. N. NEritos an Island not far from Ithaca and Zant. 95 A Mountain of the same Name likewise in Ithaca ibid. O. OLenos a City of Achaia thin Peopled in Strabo's time totally deserted 84 Olympian Games The Victors therein crown'd with Wild Olive 94 In after-times with Crowns of Gold ibid. Not known in Homer's time ibid. Orestes Son of Agamemnon formerly call'd Achaeus 163 Born on the Feast-day of Ceres surnamed Erinnys ibid. Implying thereby that he should be vex'd by Furies ibid. P. PAtroclus slain in Achilles his Armour by Euphorbus and H●…or not without the assistance of Apollo 55 Pelion the highest Mountain of Thessaly 86 It s Perpendicular height according to the measure of Dicaearchus Siculus ibid. ●…silea Queen of the Amazons ●…lain by Achilles 31 Who seeing her dead Beauty became passionately in Love with her ibid. Pepare●…us an Island in the Aege●… Sea one of the Cyclades It s modern Names 89 Pergamus the Citadel of Troy That Part which was more especially said to have been immur'd by the Gods 4 Phthia a City and Region of Thessaly Pag. 82 Two Cities of that Name one in Thessaly the other in ●…chaia Phth●…otide ibid. One the Birth-place and Principality of Achilles the other under the Dominion of Protesilaus ibid. Pisa celebrated for the Temple of Iupiter and the Olympick Games 93 Destroy'd by the Elaean's its Neighbours ibid. Pleuron a City of Aetolia There were two of the same Name the Old and the New 85 At this day call'd Bozichistran ibid. Praefica 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Chief of the Women Mourners and Directress of the Lamentations made at the Funerals of the Dead 11 Priam his Sons and Daughters 7 Twice captiv'd 14 Where and how slain 15 Call'd by Tiberius and Nero The happiest of Men for that he saw his Country and Kingdom destroy'd with himself 17 His first Name Podarces Whence called Priamus ibid. Prothous Commander of the Magnetians in the Trojan Wars 86 Pylos Three Cities of that Name each claiming to be the Country of Nestor 93 Pyrrhus introduc'd by Seneca to personate Nero. 32 R. RHet●…an Promontory 115 S. SAlamis or Salamine an Island near the Athenian Coast. 91 The Birth-place of Ajax ibid. Called therefore Ajax his true Salamine to distinguish it from the Cyprian Salamine built by his Brother Teucer which was call'd Ambiguous ibid. Call'd at this day Coluri ibid. Scaean Gate why so call'd 113 Scarphe a City of the Locrians By Causabon conceiv'd to be trulier call'd Tarphe 92 The reason of its Name ibid. Scyros an Island in the Aegean Sea where Achisles was conceal'd by his Mother Pag. 41 A Stony Island whence the Name seems to be deriv'd ibid. Scyrius Principatus meant of a mean and low Principality ibid. Souls by some of the Stoics suppos'd Mortal with the Body 47 By others of them believ'd to endure till the World's General Conflagration ibid. The Life after separation from the Body miserable and painful 48 Sparta or Laced●…mon at this day call'd Mysithra 94 T. TAnais mistaken by Seneca for Danubius 3 A common Error among the Romans ibid. Reputed by some to have seven Mouths or Outlets by some five by others only two ibid. Telemac●…us Son of Ulysses and Penelope 66 Signification of his Name ibid. Te●…pe its Description Original of its Name 82 Thebes Nine Cities of the same Name reckon'd up by Stephanus de Urb. 27 The Cilician Thebes the Country of Ection Father of Andromache destroy'd by Achilles ibid. Thessaly its Description antient and modern Names 81 Not known by that Name in the time of the Trojan Wars ibid. Tigris erroneously said by Seneca to fall into the Erythraan or the Red Sea 3 Falls into the Persian Gulf. ibid. Tit●…ressus a River of Thessaly that swims upon the River Peneus without mingling his Waters 92 Trachyn or Trachys a City of Phocis according to Strabo according to Stephanus of Thessaly so called from the Asperity of its Situation 82 Tricca a City of Thessaly 83 The Bishoprick of Heliodorus Author of the fair Aethiopian ibid. Triones Seven Stars in the Constellation of the Northern Bear 54 Why so called ibid. Trio A Sirname to the Lucretian Family ibid. Triton half Man half Dolphin The Prime Marine Trumpeter indu'd with Humane voice 22 Tras●…n a City in Peloponnesus seated 15 Stadia from the Sea 85 It s Original Famous for a fair Port under its Command call'd Portus Sarokicus Pogonus ibid. It s modern Names ibid. Troy why said to be built by Apollo and Neptune Pag. 2 What part of it more especially immur'd by the said Gods 4 The Number and Names of its Gates 113 The Game or Exercise call'd Troja 78 Different from the Pyrrhick Exercise or Measure ibid. The Exercise of Torneaments suppos'd by some to be thence deriv'd ibid. V. UR●…e The Lots of Slaves and condemn'd Persons drawn out of an Urne 8 Call'd Hydria Situla and Sitella ibid. Sortition by Lotts drawn out of Urnes threefold Divisoria Consultoria Divinatoria ibid. Urne of Destiny ibid. Urns for conserving the Bones and Ashes of the Dead 49 Distinguish'd into Ossuaria and Cineraria ibid. Z. ZAnt an Island in the Ionian Sea lying against the Western Coast of Peloponnesus 95 FINIS ERRATA PAge 21. Line 5. read to p. 27. l. 2. both fell p. 43. l. 24. By that p. 49. l. 3. S●…l ri●…g I●… l. 4. Or setting p. 59. l. ult Let us p. 78. l. 26. W●…lfgangus p. 82. l. 11. religi●… p. 87. l. 1. 〈◊〉 p. 88. l. 27. A●… p. 92. l. 21. p. 109. l. 7. Hel●…'s a Easie Gods As Seneca here calls them Leves Deos which we render easie that is soon turn'd

intend And this our Strife let thy grave Counsel end Calchas The usual means Fates of Return afford The Greeks To th' Tomb of the Thessalian Lord The Virgin must be sacrific'd so drest As Grecian Brides are at their Nuptial Feast And Pyrrhus wedded to thy Sire by Thee With these due Rites shall she espoused be Yet is not This our Fleets sole Remora More Noble Blood than Thine Polyxena The Fates require Great Hector's only Son From some high Turret must be headlong thrown So have the Gods decreed he should be slain Then may your Conquering Navy plough the Main CHORUS IS it a Truth or Fiction blinds Our fearful Minds That when to Earth We Bodies give Souls yet do live That when the Wife hath clos'd with Cries The Husbands Eyes When the last fatal day of Light Hath spoil'd our Sight And when to Dust and Ashes turn'd Our Bones are urn'd Souls stand yet in no Need at All Of Funeral But that a longer Life with pain They still retain Or dye We quite nor ought We have Survives the Grave When like to Smoak immix'd with Skies The Spirit flies And Funeral Tapers are apply'd To th' naked Side What e're Sol's Rising does disclose A Setting shows What e're the Sea with flowing Waves Or ebbing laves Old Time that moves with winged pace Doth soon deface With the same swiftness the Signs rowle Round round the Pole With the same course Day 's Ruler steers The fleeting Years With the same speed th'oblique-pac'd Moon Does wheeling run We all are hurried to our Fates Our Lives last Dates And when we reach the Stygian Shore Are then no more As Smoke which springs from Fire is soon Dispers'd and gone Or Clouds which we but now beheld By Winds dispel'd The Spirit which informs this Clay So fleets away Nothing is after Death and this Too Nothing is The Gaol or the extremest space Of a swift Race The Covetous their Hopes forbear The Sad their fear Ask'st thou when e're thou com'st to die Where thou shalt lie Where lie th' unborn Away Time rakes us Then Chaos takes us Death's Individual like kind To Body or Mind What e're of Taenarus they sing And Hell 's fierce King How Cerberus still guards the Port O' th' Stygian Court Are all but idle Rumours found And empty Sound Like the vain Terrors of the Night Or Dreams that fright ACT III. SCENE I. Andromache Senex Astyanax mute Andromache VVHy tear you thus your Hair and weeping beat Your wretched Brests ye Phrygian Dames We yet Suffer but lightly if we suffer what Is onely to be wept Troy fell but late To you to me long since When in our view Cruel Achilles at his Chariot drew My Hector's Limbs whilst with a Weight unknown The trembling Axletree did seem to groan Then then was Troy o'rethrown then Ilium fell Sense of that Grief makes me unsensible And now by Death free'd from Captivity I 'd follow Hector but this Boy here he Witholds me he sweet Child my Will restrains And from a much-desired Death detains 'T is he that makes me yet the Gods intreat He to my Griefs a longer time hath set And though my greatest Comfort took from me The greatest Comfort in my Misery Security from Fear no place doth rest For happier Fortune with the worst opprest And saddest Miseries For to fear still When Hope hath left us is the worst of Ill. Senex What sudden Fear does thy sad Mind surprize Andromache From our great Ills still greater Ills arise Nor yet can Iliums fatal Woes have end Senex What further Miseries does Heaven intend Andromache Hell 's open'd and our Foes that we might n'ere Want Terror rising from their Graves appear And can this onely to the Greeks befall Sure Death is equally the same to all That common Fear all Phrygians doth distress But my sad Dream doth me alone oppress Senex Declare what did thy dreadful Dream present Andromache Two parts of quiet Night were almost spent And now the Seven Triones had wheel'd round Their glittering Wain when Rest a Stranger found To my afflicted Thoughts in a short Sleep Upon my wearied Eyes did gently creep If such Amaze of Mind yet Sleep may be Strait to my thinking I did Hector see Not such as when against the Argives bent On Graecian Ships Idaean Flames he sent Nor such when he his Foes with slaughter struck And real Spoils from false Achilles took Nor did his sprightly Eyes with Lightning glance But with a sad dejected Countenance Like mine he stood his Hair all soil'd and wet It joy'd me although such to see him yet His Head then shaking thus at length he spake Awake my dear Andromache awake And quickly hence As●…yanax convey Let him be closely hid no other way Is left to save him thy sad Cries forbear Griev'st thou Troy's fall'n would God it wholly were Quickly dispatch and to some secret place Convey this small last hopes of all our Race Sleep from my Senses a cold horrour shook When staring round with an affrighted look Wretch I my Child forgot for Hector sought But lo the fleeting shadow whilest I thought To have embrac'd it fled O my dear Joy True Bloud of thy great Sire sole Hopes of Troy Unhappy Issue of too fam'd a Race Too like thy Father even such a Face My Hector had his Gait such so he bare His conqu'ring Arms so did his curled Hair Part on his threatning Forehead so from 's Head Covering his Neck 'bout his tall Shoulders spread O Son too late unto thy Countrey born Too soon unto thy Mother will that Turn That happy Revolution never come That I may see thee build up Ilium And her fled Citizens reduce once more And to their Town and them their Name restore But I forget my self and fondly crave Too happy things Enough poor Captives have If they may live What place Wretch can secure Thy Fears sweet Child where shall I hide thee sure That late proud Palace rich in Wealth and Fame Built by the Gods worthy ev'n Envy's Aim Is now to a rude Heap of Ashes turn'd All 's levell'd with the Ground the whole Town burn'd In wastful Flames nor doth there now abide So much of Tr●…y as may one Infant hide What place would fittest serve for my intent Hard by 's my Husbands stately Monument Which ev'n the Enemy doth reverence Which with much Cost nor less Magnificence On his own Sorrows too too prodigal Old Priam built there I may best of all Intrust him with his Sire A cold Sweat flows O're all my Limbs my Mind distracted grows And dreads the omen of the dismal place Senex Oft a suppos'd Destruction in this case Men from a real Ruine hath preserv'd No other Hope of Safety is reserv'd A great and fatal Weight on him doth lie The Greatness of his own Nobility Andromache Pray Heav'n no one discover or

Sp●…rta dedicated to him and built by Praces Grandchild of Pergamus Son of Neoptolemus or Pyrrhus where the Athlet●… or Combatants who went into the Plane-tree Grove on Solemn days to fight offer'd Sacrifice to Achilles before the Combat And Dion Prusi●…us Orat. 36. reports that his Countrymen the ●…orystenitae had him in highest veneration to whom they built a Temple in a certain Island which they call'd after his Name By the Athenians likewise he was worshipped as their Tutelar Deity by whose supposed Protection both that City and the whole Region of Attica as Zosimus in 4. Hist. from the Authority of Syrianus the Philosopher would persuade his Reader to believe was preserv'd from the threatning ruin of Earth-quakes generally infesting all Greece in the time of Valens the Eastern Emperour The same Zosimus in his fifth Book likewise adding that when Alaricbus besieg'd that City with intent to have destroy'd it he was frighted from his design by the appearance of this angry Demi-God at the Prayers and Intercession of the Bes●…eged Not to mention the Honours done him by Alexander the Great and Antonius Car●…calla the Roman Emperour in their Parentations at his Monument mentioned by Arrian and Herodian The over-curious criticizing of Gronovius upon this place endeavouring to wrest the Original text from the common Reading of the Words as we have rendred them is to little purpose In the following C●…orus consisting of Trojan Women aptly enough introduc'd to question the verity of Achilles's rising from the Dead as rumour'd in the foregoing Act Seneca takes occasion to make them speak his own Epicur●…an and S●…oical Sentiments in prejudice to the Persuasion of the Souls Immortality thereby rendring the subject of their Discourse confessedly impious In so much that Delrius otherwise no less a friend to him than his friend Lipsius is here forc'd to leave him and to cry out Valeat Seneca cum suis Animae necatoribus having first prepar'd an Antidote against his poisonous Assertions therein vindicating the Soul's Immortality by Arguments drawn not only from the Reasonings of the wisest Philosophers and the common Sentiment of most Nations but also from the Dictates of Scripture Fathers Councils and the mee●… light of Nature To which by way of pre-caution we refer the unwary Reader z Souls yet do live The Stoics are not all of one persuasion touching the state of the Soul after the Death of the Body some affirming it to dye with the Body as Panaetius and his Followers Others with Cleanthes with whom likewise Chrys●…ppus in part consents as to the Souls only of the Wise allow to them a survivance after the Body but not to endure longer than the Worlds general Conflagration Which opinion Cicero in 1. Tuscul. hath thus ingeniously exprest Sto●…ci usuram nobis largiuntur tanquam Cornicibus Diu mansuros 〈◊〉 A●…tmos semper negunt a The Wife hath clos'd with cries The Husband's Eyes The Ancients as well Greeks as Romans were most superstitiously observant of the Ceremony of closing the Eyes of the Dead and this was always done or intended to be done by those of neerest Relation as of Wives for their Husbands Husbands for their Wives Parents for their Children Children for their Parents and so in order according to their Degree of Proximity by Blood or Friendship Of the manner of performing which Ceremony and of the Reasons for it the Reader may find a particular account in Kirkmannus de Funeribus lib. 1. c. 6. and Meursius upon the same subject lib. singular c. 3. b When to Ashes turn'd Our Bones are Urn'd After the Corps was burnt which was the manner of the ancient Funeral they collected the remaining Bones and Ashes of the Dead which Office or Duty among the Romans was call'd Ossilegium The Bon●… and Ashes so collected together they be sprinkled with Wine and other odorous Liquors and bedew'd with their Tears then put them up into small Vessels which they call'd Urns which Urns or Vessels were distinguish'd by their proper names of Ossuaria and Cin●…raria See the forecited Authors in the precedent Note c A longer life with pain They still retain This is the best condition which the most eminent of the Stoics allow to a separated Soul for the Life of a Soul after the Body's Death the Stoics as Delrius upon this place notes 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 miseriam rebantur though Lactantius lib. 7. reports Zeno to have taught otherwise The words of Lactantius are these Esse Inferos Zenon Stoicus docuit sedes Piorum ab Impiis esse discretas illos quidem quietas ac delectabiles incolere regiones ●…os verò liter●… poenas in teneb●…osis locis atque in coeni voraginibus horrendis d Tapers are apply'd To th' naked side Alluding to the ancient Custom or Ceremony in setting fire to the Funeral Pile whereon the dead body was to be burnt which was done by the nearest of kin of the Male Sex who as Virgil expresses the manner of doing it subjectam more Parentum Aversam tenuere facem going backward and turning their Faces from the Pile Ut id officium necessitatis esse ostenderent non voluntatis says Servius upon that place adding likewise that these Funeral Lights or Torches were made ex funibus of twisted Cords which as Is●…dore tells us were cerâ circunda●…i whence Varro derives the denomination of Funeral e Nothing is after Death and this Too Nothing is Seneca here does not so much seem to declare as to confirm his Opinion to use Heinsius's Expression which he hath elsewhere to this purpose laid down both in his Epistles to Lucilius and particularly in Consolat ad Marciam from whom his Nephew Lucan hath borrowed thus much in the third of his Pharsalia Aut nihil est sensûs animis à morte reli●…um Aut mors ipsa nihil Or Souls no sense do after Death retain Or Death is nothing To a much better and contrary sense Propertius lib. 3. El●…g Sunt aliquid Ma●…es Lethum non omnia finit f The Covetous That is the desirous of death in hopes thereby to better their Condition g The sad That is those that fear punishment for their Offences after death h Where lie th' unborn This is but a Repetition of what he elsewhere declares Consolat ad Marc. Mors nos in illam tranquillitatem in qua antequam nasceremur jacuimus repo●…it Si mortuorum aliquis miseretur nonnatorum misereatur i What e're of Taenarus they sing c. The same Position he maintains in Consolat ad Marciam in these words Illa quae nobis inferos faciunt terribiles fabula est c. Luserunt ista Poet●… vanis nos agitavere terroribus Where we may see he hath in this place onely transferred the sense of his Philosophical Prose into Poetical Numbers and from this Instance and the foregoing clearly infer were there no other Arguments to evince it that Seneca the Philosopher was the Author of this