“The unhappy maid, impatient of the wrong,

Down from a beam her injured person hung;

When Pallas, pitying her wretched state,

At once prevented and pronounced her fate:

‘Live; but depend, vile wretch!’ the goddess cried,

‘Doomed in suspense forever to be tied;

That all your race, to utmost date of time,

May feel the vengeance and detest the crime.’