At length death's lord exclaims : ‘We own defeat go forth to the upper world, yet by this appointed doom-fare thou as comrade behind thy husband, and thou, look not back upon thy wife until bright day shall have revealed the gods of heaven, and the opening of Spartan Taenarus shall be at hand.'" ~ Seneca, Hercules Furens. Eurydice the Thracian brides bewail even the gods, whom no tears can move, bewail her and they who with awful brows investigate men's crimes and sift out ancient wrongs, as they sit in judgment bewail Eurydice. The art which had drawn the trees and birds and rocks, which had stayed the course of rivers, at whose sound the beasts had stopped to listen, soothes the underworld with unaccustomed strains, and rings out clearer in those unhearing realms. "Orpheus had power to bend the ruthless lords of the shades by song and suppliant prayer, when he sought back his Eurydice. Then first by that sad ringing overwhelmed, the Eumenides' cheeks, it's said, were wet with tears and the queen and he whose sceptre rules the underworld could not deny the prayer, and called Eurydice." ~ Ovid, Metamorphoses.
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