Alligat, et novies Styx interfusa coërcet.”
(Æneis, lib. vi. ver. 434 et seq.)
“The next in place and punishment are they
Who prodigally throw their souls away:
Fools, who, repining at their wretched state,
And loathing anxious life, suborn their fate:
With late repentance now they would retrieve
The bodies they forsook, and wish to live;
Their pains and poverty desire to bear,
To view the light of heaven and breathe the vital air.