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Psyche vero, humi prostrata et

Psyche however, after throwing herself on the ground

quantum visu poterat, volatus mariti prospiciens

and watching her husband’s flight, as much as she could with her sight

extremis affligievat lamentationibus animum

she was tormenting her soul with the upmost lamentations

sed ubi remigio plumae raptum maritum proceritas patii fecerat alienum

but when the distance of space had made her husband, who had been seized on the oarage of his wings, remote from her

per proximi fluminis marginem praecipitem sese dedit

she flung herself over the bank of a nearby river