Jusque omne pereat. non sit a vestris malis
Immune cœlum. cum micant stellæ polo,
Flammæque servant debitum mundo decus; 50
Nox atra fiat, excidat cœlo dies.
Misce penateis: odia, cædes, funera
Arcesse, & imple Tantalo totam domum.
Ornetur altum columen, & lauro fores
Lætæ virescant; dignus adventu tuo 55
Splendescat ignis. Thraciam fiat nesas
Majore numero. dextra cur patrui vacat?
Nondum Thyestes liberos deflet suos?
Ecquando tollet ignibus jam subditis
Spumante aheno? membra per partes eant 60
Discerpta: patrios polluat sanguis socos:
Epulæ instruantur, non novi sceleris tibi
Conviva venies; liberum dedimus diem,
Tuamque ad istas solvimus mensas famem.
Jejunia exple. mixtus in Bacchum cruor 65
Spectante te potetur. inveni dapes,
Quas ipse fugeres. Siste. quo præceps ruis?
TANT. Ad stagna, & amnes, & recedentes aquas,
Labrisque ab ipsis arboris plenas fugas,
Abire in atrum carceris liceat mei 70
Cubile: liceat, si parum videor miser,
Mutare ripas: alveo medius tuo
Phlegethon relinquar, igneo cinctus freto.
Quicunque pœnas lege fatorum datas
Pati juberis: quisquis exeso jaces 75
Pavidus sub antro, jamque venturi times
Montis ruinam: quisquis avidorum feros
Rictus leonum, & dira Furiarum agmina
Implicitus horres: quisquis immissas faces.
Semiustus abigis, Tantali vocem excipe 80
Properantis ad vos: credite experto mihi,
Amate pœnas, quando continget mibi
Effugere superos? MEG. Ante perturba domum,
consideration with them in their wicked palace! Let the binding confidence between brothers, every friendship, every trust and all that is holy and sacred amongst kindred be trampled on—defied! And let heaven itself claim no immunity from the effects of thy crimes! Why do the stars shine in the heavens? why does their light continue its task of giving ornament to the world? As a matter of right? No! let night be rendered as black as possible, let no daylight emanate from the heavens! Let us throw the household Gods into disorder; bring about enmities, slaughters, deaths! Let the entire palace be filled with and reveal the presence of Tantalus! Let
