Troades, or, The royal captives a tragedy / written originally in Latin by Lucius Annæus Seneca ... ; English'd by Edward Sherburne, Esq. ; with annotations.
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- Troades, or, The royal captives a tragedy / written originally in Latin by Lucius Annæus Seneca ... ; English'd by Edward Sherburne, Esq. ; with annotations.
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- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
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- London :: Printed by Anne Godbid and John Playford, for Samuel Carr ...,
- 1679.
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TO THE READER.
IF the Reflection upon other Misfor∣tunes, may afford at any time Diversion, or Improvement, by minding us of the Signal Vicissitudes of Humane Affairs; these Tragical Scenes, which we now offer to publick view, (exhibiting a serious, yet withall, delightful Representation, of one of the most splendid Calamities that Anti∣quity hath transmitted to Posterity) may peradventure be look'd upon as no unplea∣sing Entertainment.
The Poem, as to its Subject, wants nothing of Grandeur to ennoble it, nor, as to its Composition, of Ingenuity: Having gain'd by the joynt Suffrage of the most knowing Criticks of this latter Age (Lipsius, Delrius, Scaliger, and Heinsius) the
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Title of The Divine Troades. And one of the most Eminent Modern Masters of Dra∣matick Poesy among us, Mr. Dryden, in his Essay upon that Subject, hath declar'd it to be the Master Piece of Seneca; especially that Scene therein, where Ulys•…•…s is seeking for Astyanax to kill him. There (says he) you have the Tenderness of a Mother so represented in Andromache, that it raises Compassion to a high Degree in the Reader, and bears the nearest Resemblance of any thing in the Antient Tragedies, to the excellent Scenes of Passion in Shakespeare, or in Fletcher.
If in this our Version, those commen∣dable Graces of the Original be not utterly lost, the candid Reader will find somthing therein, which happily, he may not dislike.
For the better clearing of the obscurer places in the Poem, there are added some Mythological, Historical, and Topographical Notes; not such (I must confess) as may fully answer the expectation of the Critically Learned, yet such (if I mistake not) as may serve, in some Measure, to satisfie the inge∣nious Curiosity of the less knowing Reader.