Monday, September 29, 2014

 

Freedom from Cares

Pseudo-Seneca, Octavia 77-79 (tr. John G. Fitch):
NURSE
Pitiful one,
what day will free you from such sorrows?

OCTAVIA
The day that sends me to the Stygian shades.

NUTRIX
Quis te tantis solvet curis,
miseranda, dies?

OCTAVIA
Qui me Stygias mittet ad umbras.

# posted by Michael Gilleland @ 8:04 AM


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