[3869]. Lucan. “Overcome by grief, and unable to endure it, she exclaimed, 'Not to be able to die through sorrow for thee were base.'”
[3870]. 3 Annal.
[3871]. “The colour suddenly fled her cheek, the distaff forsook her hand, the reel revolved, and with dishevelled locks she broke away, wailing as a woman.”
[3872]. Virg. Aen. 10. “Transfix me, O Rutuli, if you have any piety: pierce me with your thousand arrows.”
[3873]. Confess. l. 1.
[3874]. Juvenalis.
[3875]. Amator scortum vitae praeponit, iracundus vindictam, parasitus gulam, ambitiosus honores, avarus opes, miles rapinam, fur praedam; morbos odimus et accersimus. Card.
[3876]. Seneca; quum nos sumus, mors non adest; cum vero mors adest, tum nos non sumus.
[3877]. Bernard. c. 3. med. nasci miserum, vivere poena, angustia mori.
[3878]. Plato Apol. Socratis. Sed jam hora est hinc abire, &c.