Ubi idem et maximus et honestissimus amor est, aliquando praestat morte jungi, quam vita distrahi → Where indeed the greatest and most honourable love exists, it is much better to be joined by death, than separated by life.
asphŏdĕlus: (-ĭlus, Pall. 1, 37, 2), i, m., = ἀσφόδελος,
I the asphodel, a kind of lily-shaped plant with many tubercles at the root: Asphodelus ramosus, Linn.; Plin. 21, 17, 68, § 108 sqq. (acc. to Isid. Orig. 17, 9, 84, in pure Lat., albutium).