[56] Et grave mors quoque crimen erat. These words admit different meanings: for we may explain them either, 'that death, in this case, served only to increase my shame, by publishing it to all the world;' or, 'that even death itself here was a crime, because, by the steps which I was obliged to take in order to keep the matter secret, I exposed myself to manifest cancer, and might, in some sense, he said to be accessary to my own death.
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P. Ovidius Naso. The Epistles of Ovid, translated into English prose, as near the original as the different idioms of the Latin and English languages will allow; with the Latin text and order of construction on the same page; and critical, historical, geographical, and classical notes in English, from the very best commentators both ancient and modern; beside a very great number of notes entirely new. Anne Mahoney. edited for Perseus. London. J. Nunn, Great-Queen-Street; R. Priestly, 143, High-Holborn; R. Lea, Greek-Street, Soho; and J. Rodwell, New-Bond-Street. 1813.
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