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.
pilates: or pellates, only in nom. [cf. πελλός, pallidus,
I a kind of stone: lapidis genus, cujus meminit Cato originum l. V.: lapis candidior quam pilates, Fest. p. 237 Müll.