Monologue

Nuntius Monologue from Sejanus His Fall

From Sejanus His Fall by Ben Jonson

female · anguished · 1:23 min

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Their bodies thrown Into the Gemonies, (I know not how, Or by what accident return’d.) the mother, The expulsed Apicata, finds them there; Whom when she saw lie spread on the degrees, After a world of fury on herself, Tearing her hair, defacing of her face, Beating her breasts and womb, kneeling amaz’d, Crying to heaven, then to them; at last, Her drowned voice gat up above her woes, And with such black and bitter execrations, As might affright the gods, and force the sun Run backward to the east; nay, make the old Deformed chaos rise again, to o’erwhelm Them, us, and all the world, she fills the air, Upbraids the heavens with their partial dooms, Defies their tyrannous powers, and demands, What she, and those poor innocents have transgress’d, That they must suffer such a share in vengeance, Whilst Livia, Lygdus, and Eudemus live, Who, as she says, and firmly vows to prove it To Cæsar and the senate, poison’d Drusus?

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The character, Apicata, discovers the bodies of her loved ones in a state of despair and rage, expressing her grief and anger towards the heavens for their perceived injustices.

30s · anger · revenge · death · betrayal · power

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