12 examples of matricide in sentences

The preference was given to subjects derived from the siege of Troy and the legends immediately connected with it, evidently because this cycle of myths alone was familiar to the Roman public through instruction at school; by their side incidents of striking horror predominate, such as matricide or infanticide in the -Eumenides-,

A Seneca could stoop to write what a Thrasea Paetus could scarcely stoop to hear; for in the meeting of the Senate at which the letter was recited, Thrasea rose in indignation, and went straight home rather than seem to sanction by his presence the adulation of a matricide.

Moral precepts, philosophic guidance were no longer possible to one whose compliances or whose timidity had led him so far as first to sanction matricide, and then to defend it.

" In many quarters at once, also, might be read the inscription: "Nero, Orestes, Alemeon, matricides.

And when Nero by way of encouraging them reported that these verses were nowhere to be found, they changed and went to repeating another oracle, which they averred to be a genuine Sibylline production, namely: "Last of the sons of Aeneas a matricide shall govern.

Such was the drama that Fate had now prepared for him, to the end that he should no longer represent all other matricides and beggars, but only himself at last.

Of ancient citizens, waiting for their sons to come back from the war, as in the "Agamemnon" of AEschylus; of sea-nymphs, as in his "Prometheus Bound;" even of the very Furies who hunt the matricide, as in his "Eumenides;" of senators, as in the "Antigone" of Sophocles; or of village farmers, as in his "OEdipus at Colonos"and now I have named five of the greatest poems, as I hold, written by mortal man till Dante rose.

If Orestes be accused of matricide, unless he says this, "I did it rightfully, for she had murdered my father," he has no defence at all.

; And to the ancient daughters of the night Cries,"Let him not escape,the matricide!

From Delphi, Phoebus sent them to this shore With a divine command to steal away The image of Diana, and to him Bear back the sister thither, and for this He promised to the blood-stained matricide, The Fury-haunted son, deliverance.

A man may be quietly parasitic upon his mother, and yet incapable of matricide.

Louis "the Just"we append to his baptismal appellation that which was gravely conferred upon him on this occasion by both clergy and laitystood an undisguised assassin and a moral matricide before the people who were about to be subjected to his rule.

12 examples of  matricide  in sentences