Ovid

“ Love has joined you also. I beg by these places full of despair
by this huge Chaos and the silence of this desolate kingdom,
unweave the premature death of Eurydice!
Everything is owed to you and, having delayed
a little bit, sooner or later, we hasten to one seat (death) .
We all proceed here, this is the ultimate house and you
hold the most enduring dominion over the human race. ”

“ Or like Olenos, and you, his Lethaea, too proud of your beauty:
he wished to be charged with your crime, and seem guilty himself:
once wedded hearts, you are now rocks set on moist Mount Ida.
The toll-keeper restrained him begging and wishing to cross again
in vain. Nevertheless, he, filthy, sat on the shores
for 7 days without the gift of Ceres (grain) ;
anxiety and grief of his soul and tears were food.
Having complained that the gods of the underworld were cruel,
he retreated onto high Rhodope and to Haemus beaten by the winds. ”

“ O divinities of the world placed below the earth
into which we fall back, whichever of us are created mortal,
if it is allowed and, with the wanderings of false speech placed aside,
you permit truth to be said, I did not descend here so that I might see
dark Tartarus nor to bind the three throats
of the monster of Medusa shaggy with snakes;
the cause of my way is my wife, into whom a stepped on
serpent poured venom and taking away her budding years.
I wish to be able to endure nor shall deny that I tried;
Love conquers. ”