labefactus

Updated: May 14, 2025

This notwithstanding, as Segrais confesses, he might have shown a little more sensibility when he left her, for that had been according to his character. But let Virgil answer for himself. He still loved her, and struggled with his inclinations to obey the gods: "Curam sub corde premebat, Multa gemens, magnoque animum labefactus amore."

John Dryden - Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry