Helvia
historical figure · 1 work · 2 mentions · 12 anchored passages
dearest mother · you · mother
in the texts
Consolation to Helvia
Seneca's mother, the grieving addressee of the consolation, who has suffered a lifetime of bereavements and is now mourning her son's exile.
for I have determined to conquer your grief, not to circumscribe it.
Often already, dearest mother, I have felt the impulse to console you, and as often I have checked it.
Away, then, with lamentations and wailings and all the other display by which a woman's grief commonly makes its uproar;