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.
and, that Fortune might not lighten her cruelty by spreading it out, within thirty days you buried that dearest husband by whom you had become the mother of three children.
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;