Latin - Cambridge School Classics Project

Pliny, Faithful unto death (translation)I was sailing across our Lake Larius, when a friend pointed out to me a villa and also a bedroom whichsticks out into the lake: “Out of this bedroom” he said, “a certain woman once threw herself with herhusband. The husband was afflicted by a very serious illness. His wife begged him that it might be allowedfor her to inspect his body; for no one (lit. not anyone) would more faithfully inform him whether he couldbe healed. She saw, she despaired, she encouraged him to die, and she herself was the companion ofhis death, more precisely the leader and the example and the compulsion; for she bound herself to herhusband and jumped into the lake.”WJEC Level 2 Latin Literature Unit 9541 Love and Marriage 67