No one in our time has played the part of Cassandra with more foresight and vehemence than the late Sir Charles Napier.

why drag you thus a prince's wife, As if that beauty were a thrall to fate? Are Romans grown more barbarous than Greeks, That hate more greater than Cassandra now?

If thou wilt avoid them, take away all causes of suspicion and jealousy, marry a coarse piece, fetch her from Cassandra's temple, which was wont in Italy to be a sanctuary of all deformed maids, and so shalt thou be sure that no man will make thee cuckold, but for spite.

See CASSANDRA, CASSIOPE, LEUCOTHOE, OXYDENDRUM, PIERIS, and ZENOBIA.

CASSANDRA CALYCULATA (syn Andromeda calyculata).North America, 1748.

" Pietro had consented that Bianca should be "La cosa di Francesco"; he too would enjoy life, and he sought his compensation in the embraces of the most attractive and most scheming flirt in Florence, Madonna Cassandra, the wealthy widow of Messer Simone de' Borghianiborn a Riccio.

That same nightit was 27th August 1572Madonna Cassandra was stabbed, in her own apartment, also twenty-five times, and two stark, mutilated corpses were mercifully borne away, in the dawn, by the brethren of the Misericordia, and given burial.

His head was filled with visionsa welter of sublime imaginings, in which floated such figures as Ophelia and Cassandra, Gretchen, Delia, Phædra, Manon Lescaut, and Virginia, and hovering amid these, shadows still nameless, still almost formless, and yet full of seduction!

" The market continued deaf to the Cassandra school.

"They are calling an extra, Celia!" "No, little Cassandra, it's only boys skylarking.

The richest widow in Florence, Cassandra Borgianni, was eager to lavish her smiles and favours on him; and the knowledge that two of his predecessors in her affection had fallen under the assassin's knife only lent zest to a love adventure which was after his heart.

From Miss Swanwick's Translation of 'The Seven Against Thebes.' THE VISION OF CASSANDRA

CASSANDRA Phoebus Apollo!

CASSANDRA Phoebus!

CASSANDRA Apollo!

CHORUS Seemingly Possessed indeedwhether by CASSANDRA Phoebus!

CASSANDRA Hither, whither, Phoebus?

And with whom, Leading me, lighting me CHORUS I can answer that CASSANDRA Down to what slaughter-house!

CASSANDRA Down upon the towers, Phantoms of two mangled children hoverand a famished man, At an empty table glaring, seizes and devours!

CASSANDRA

CASSANDRA

CASSANDRA

'Tis true, he merits not To be betrayed, Atrides: he who loves His wife so well; he who, enchained from Troy, In semblance of a slave in fetters, brought Cassandra, whom he loves, to whom he is Himself a slave ... Cly.

Cassandra chosen as my rival? ...

Then, forth I ran 305 From the assembly; through a length of streets, Ran, ostrich-like, to reach our chapel door In not a desperate or opprobrious time, Albeit long after the importunate bell Had stopped, with wearisome Cassandra voice 310 No longer haunting the dark winter night.