Complete Works of Seneca (Illustrated)

Permit her saggy hair, her torn locks, remain at the same time they're, the marks of that groovy guilt. undergo her to the town. Now come again to realization, my mistress. Why doest tear thyself and shun the glances people all? ’Tis considering makes impure, now not condition. [Exuent. ] refrain [736] He fled like a raging tempest, faster than cloud-collecting Corus, quicker than flame which speeds on its method while a celebrity, pushed through the winds, extends its long-trailing fireplace. [741] allow repute evaluate with thee all old attractiveness, popularity, admirer of the olden time; as a lot fairer does thy attractiveness shine as gleams extra brightly the full-orbed moon whilst with assembly horns she has joined her fires, whilst on the complete with rushing chariot blushing Phoebe indicates her face and the lesser stars fade out of sight. comparable to he's the messenger of evening, who brings the 1st shadows again, Hesperus, clean bathed in ocean; and whilst the shadows were pushed away back, Lucifer additionally. [753] And thou, Bacchus, from thyrsus-bearing India, with unshorn locks, without end younger, thou who frightenest tigers with thy vine-clad spear, and with a turban bindest thy hornèd head – thou wilt no longer surpass Hippolytus’ crisp locks. recognize now not thou thy attractiveness overmuch; tale has unfold via each state whom the sister of Phaedra most popular to Bromius. [761] O good looks, uncertain boon to mortals, short present for yet a bit time, how rapidly on fast foot thou dost slip away! no longer so swifty are the meadows, beauteous with early spring, despoiled via the new summer’s glow, while with solstitial hearth noon rages, and the nights sweep headlong of their short direction. As lilies wither and their leaves develop light, so do our interesting locks fall shape the pinnacle, and the intense glow which shines on younger cheeks is ravished in a second and no day takes now not spoilt of our body’s attractiveness. good looks is a fleeting factor. Who that's clever might belief so frail a blessing? take pleasure in it whereas thou mayest. Time is silently undermining thee, and an hour , worse than the final, is ever creeping on. [777] Why search wilderness areas? attractiveness isn't any more secure in pathless areas. conceal thee within the woods while Titan has introduced noon, and the saucy Naïds, a wanton throng, will surround thee, wont of their waters to imprison shapely boys, and for thy slumbers the frolicsome goddesses of the groves will lay their snares, the Dryads, who pursue Pans wandering at the mountains. otherwise, taking a look down on thee from the starry heavens, the orb that was once born after the previous Arcadians will lose keep watch over of her white-shining vehicle. And in recent years she blushed fiery pink, even though no staining cloud obscured her shiny face; yet we, worried for our afflicted goddess, considering her harried via Thessalian charms, made loud jingling sounds: but ’twas thou hadst been her difficulty, thou the reason for her delaying; whereas staring at on thee the goddess of the evening checked her fast direction. [795] This face of thine enable frosts extra hardly ravage, allow this face extra seldom woo the solar; ‘twill shine extra vivid than Parian marble.