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The younger Seneca tutored Nero as a boy and was the uncle of the great poet Lucan. Though Seneca’s nine Latin tragedies had been pale imitations of the earlier Greek, they were rated highly in England by the Tudors and Stuarts. The Second Chorus of his Thyestes, lines 339–403, dilates on ‘The Lot of Kings’ and ends with these lines:
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© 1979 Michael Craze
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Craze, M. (1979). Seneca Translated. In: The Life and Lyrics of Andrew Marvell. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-04588-4_39
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