τίς γὰρ ἁδονᾶς ἄτερ θνατῶν βίος ποθεινὸς ἢ ποία τυραννίς; τᾶς ἄτερ οὐδὲ θεῶν ζηλωτὸς αἰών → What human life is desirable without pleasure, or what lordly power? Without it not even the life of the gods is enviable.
verbĕrātus: ūs, m. id.,
I a beating: si (aqua) e sublimi dejecta verberatu corripiat aëra, Plin. 31, 3, 23, § 39.