We may be masters of our every lot By bearing it.
All these souls, after they have passed away a thousand years, are summoned by the divine ones in great array, to the lethean river. . . . In this way they become forgetful of the former earthlife, and re-visit the vaulted realms of the world, willing to return again into living bodies.
O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!
He enters the port with a full sail.
From my example learn to be just, and not to despise the gods.
Better times perhaps await us who are now wretched