Pliny - Faithful unto death

navigabam per Larium nostrum, cum amicus ostendit mihi

I was sailing through our lake Larius, when a friend showed me

villam atque etiam cubiculum quod in lacum prominet:

A house and even the bedroom which stuck out into the lake:

‘ex hoc' inquit ‘olim femina quaedam cum marito se praecipitavit.

He said- ‘once a certain woman threw herself out [of here] with her husband.’

maritus ex diutino morbo ulceribus putrescebat.

The husband was rotting away with ulcers from a long illness.

uxor ut corpus nspiceret exegit;

The wife insisted that she inspect the body;

quemquam fidelius indicaturum num posset sanari.

for no one would tell her more truthfully whether he could be cured.

vidit desperavit hortata est ut moreretur,

She saw, she despaired, [and] she urged [him] to die,

comesque ipsa mortis, dux immo et exemplum et necessitas

She herself was his companion in death and in fact she was his leader, and example, and compulsion;

fuit; nam se cum marito ligavit abiecitque in lacum.

For she bound herself to her husband and hurled herself into the lake.