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.
vastesco: ĕre,
I v. inch. n. vastus, to become desert or waste: ne scelere tuo Thebani vastescant agri, Att. ap. Non. 185, 10.
vāstēscō, ĕre (vastus), intr., devenir désert : Acc. Tr. 600.
