[426-439] ‘The first place in the world of spirits is occupied by infants, who wail for the life they never enjoyed. Then come those who have been put to death by unjust sentences: these have their dooms revised. Next are suicides, who bitterly repent their rashness, and wish to be on earth again, in vain.’
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John Conington. P. Vergili Maronis opera. P. Vergili Maronis Opera. The works of Virgil, with a Commentary by John Conington, M.A. Late Corpus Professor of Latin in the University of Oxford. London. Whittaker and Co., Ave Maria Lane. 1876.
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