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.
exōcoetus: i, m., = ἐξώκοιτος,
I a fish that sleeps on the shore, Plin. 9, 19, 34, § 76.