tory of Roman
Literature_, vol. 2, p. 38 ff.; Leo, _L. Annaei Senecae Tragoediae_
(Berlin, 1878-1879); Sherburne's _Tragedies of Seneca Translated_
(London, 1702); Kingery, _Three Tragedies of Seneca_ (New York, 1908);
Harris, _The Tragedies of Seneca Translated_ (The Clarendon Press,
1904).

Metres: Anapaestic Dimeter Acatalectic with Anapaestic Dipody,
G. & L. 777, 780, 782: _Selection_ 1. Dactylic Hexameter, B. 368; A. &
G. 615: _Selection_ 2.

_1._ Cf. Horace, _Carmen_, 1. 3. 9-40. 1. Audax: cf. ll. 24, 39. nimium:
cf. l. 8. 7, 8. With too slight a partition dividing the ways of life
and death, i.e. separating from himself by merely a thin plank the sea
in which he would perish. Cf. Juvenal, 12. 57-59. Line 7 nearly equals
inter vitam et mortem. 18. Hyadas: a group of seven stars in the head of
Taurus, whose setting at both the morning and the evening twilight was
attended with storms. 19. Oleniae...caprae: one of the horns of the goat
Amalthea, which fed Jupiter with its milk, was placed among the stars.
The goat was Olenian, i.e. Aetolian. 21. Attica plaustra: Charles' Wain
(the Great Dipper), which Bootes was imagined to drive. The latter
constellation is called tardus as being so placed in the sky that it
requires a long time for its setting. 24. Tiphys: the pilot of the Argo.
28. Thessala pinus: the Argo, the first ship, which, built under the
direction of Pallas, with Jason as leader and heroes like Hercules,
Castor, and Pollux as crew, sailed to Colchis in the Far East in quest
of the Golden Fleece (which perhaps originally meant the fleecy, golden
clouds of sunrise). The Sirens, Scylla, and the Symplegades were some of
the dangers of the journey. Medea, daughter of the king of Colchis,
aided Jason to secure the fleece and fled with him. See Smith,
_Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology_, 'Argonautae.'
32. illa: the Argo. 34. montes: the Symplegades, floating rocks at the
entrance of the Euxine, which clashed together to crush whatever might
come between them. 36. velut...sonitu: groaned as with ethereal sound,
i.e. dashed together with a sound like thunder. 38. mare deprensum: the
sea caught between and forced up by the closing rocks. 42. In the prow
of the Argo was a piece of the speaking oak of Dodona. 43. virgo Pelori:
Scylla. 45. omnes...hiatus: opened all her mouths together. 48. dirae
pestes: the Sirens, maidens who by sweet songs lured sailors to their
shore and devoured them. Orpheu