Life in hell is extremely attenuated; we feel neither pleasure nor pain; we are as if we were not.

The dead have no existence here except such as the living lend them.

Nevertheless I prefer to remain here." "But what reason didst thou give, O Virgil, for so strange a refusal ?" "I gave excellent ones.

I said to the messenger of the god that I did not deserve the honour he brought me, and that a meaning had been given to my verses which they did not bear.

In truth I have not in my fourth Eclogue betrayed the faith of my ancestors.