quam vellent aethere in alto nunc et pauperiem et duros perferre labores! fas obstat tristisque palus inamabilis undae alligat et noviens Styx interfusa coercet.
How gladly now, in the air above, would they bear both want and harsh distress! Fate withstands; the unlovely mere with its dreary water enchains them and Styx imprisons with his ninefold circles.