Troades, or, The royal captives a tragedy / written originally in Latin by Lucius Annæus Seneca ... ; English'd by Edward Sherburne, Esq. ; with annotations.

ARGUMENT.

THE Greeks after ten Years War, having taken and ruin'd the City of Troy, were hindred from returning home by cross Winds. The Ghost of Achilles appearing denies any possibility of returning, until they sacrifice to his Ashes Polyxena, the Daughter of Priam and Hecuba, in treating about whose Nuptials he was treache∣rously slain. Agamemnon out of kindness to Polyxena, denies to have her sacrific'd. This begets a hot Dispute and Contest between Aga∣memnon and Pyrrhus, which Calchas at l•…•…ngth decides, by declaring, That not only Po∣lyxena, but Astyanax likewise, (Son of Hector and Andromache) were both to be slain e're they could hope for favourable Winds. In pursu∣ance of which prophetical Decree, the one was by Ulysses thrown headlong from the Scaean Tower; and the other, habited like a Grecian Bride, sacrific'd by Pyrrhus at his Father's Monument.