Sentence:  Why did Seneca decide to postpone his own <WSD>Phaedra</WSD>'s suicide until after Hippolytus' death? The question is by no means as futile as it may sound. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  The wife of Theseus, who falls in love with but is spurned by her stepson Hippolytus, then commits suicide, but is the cause of his later death (details vary between versions).