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Mental, not physical pain; what the French theologians call la peine du dam , the privation of the sight of God. ↩

Virgil, Aeneid , VI :⁠—

“Forthwith are heard voices, loud wailings, and weeping ghosts of infants, in the first opening of the gate; whom, bereaved of sweet life out of the course of nature, and snatched from the breast, a black day cut off, and buried in an untimely grave.”