qualis si puppe relicta exosus manes pigri sulcator Averni exeat ad superos solemque et pallida turbet astra, nec ipse diu fortis patiensque superni aris; interea longum cessante magistro crescat opus, totisque exspectent saecula ripis: talis init campum, comitique extrema gementi,.
It was as if the cleaver of lazy Avernus,  weary of the dead, were to leave his bark and go to the upper world to trouble sun and paling stars, himself not stout for long or patient of the upper air; meanwhile the long work grows as the skipper lags and the generations wait all along the banks: thus he enters the field and to his companion  as she sobs her heart out:
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