Ovid's Orpheus & Eurydice

She was among the recent shades and she walked with a pace, slowed from her wound. At the same time, the Rhodopeian hero welcomes her and the law, lest he turn back his lights before he will exit the Avernian Valley, his future gift would be invalid. The inclined footpath, in touched through the soundless silences, tall, dark, and thick with fog. They were not far from the border of the top of the land; here, fearing that she might lose strength and eager to see her, her lover turned his eyes, and she fell back immediately, stretching her arms, and struggling both to grasp and to be grasped, and the unlucky one grasped nothing except the receding air. And now dying again, she did not complain at all about her spouse (for what could she complain about except that she was loved?) She said her final “farewell”, which now he barely received with his ears and again she returned to the same place. Orpheus stood agape because of the double death of his wife, not differently than the coward who saw the three headed dog, chained by the middle neck, and whose fear vanished with his nature, as stone transformed his body. Or like Olenos, and you, too confident of your beauty, his Lethaea, he wished to be charged with your crime, and seem guilty himself. Once the most joined together chests, you are now rocks set on moist Mount Ida. The ferryman rejected him asking and wanting to cross once more in vain: Nevertheless, for seven days, he sat on the shore without the gift of Ceres, dirty; pain and grief in his mind, and tears were his food. Having complained that the gods of the underworld were cruel, he took back to high Rhodope and to pulsed by the wind Haemus. The third Titan ended the year and came to water Pisces, and Orpheus had shunned all feminine venery, whether because it resulted poorly got him, or whether he had given his loyalty; fire had many women, however, that they join themselves to a bard, having been rejected, many felt pain. he set that example for the Thracian people of transferring his love to young boys and enjoying the springtime and the first flower of their youth.