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Agamemnon, acts 1 & 2 (31  July  1814) Probably:
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)Agamemnon. date unknown (Seneca was born c. 4 B.C., died 65 A.D.)
In English:
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)Newton, Thomas (translator)Thebais in Seneca his Tenne tragedies, translated into Englysh. 1581
OR a later Latin edition:
Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca)Gronovius, Joannes Fredericus (editor)L. Annaei Senecae tragoediae cum notis Johannis Frederici Gronovii auctos et chirographo ejus et varius aliorum. 1682
WG's sale catalog lists:
Seneca's Ten Tragedies, transl. by Jasper Heywood, Alex. Neville, John Studley, T. Nuce, and Tho. Newton, black letter 1581 (item 816).
Senecae Tragoediae, Notis. Var. et Gronovii, 1682, and others, 7 vol. (item 651).

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