Consolantur aegram animi avertendo noxam ab coacta in
auctorem delicti: (dicunt) mentem peccare, non corpus, et unde consilium afuerit culpam abesse. “Vos” inquit “videritis quid illi debeatur:
They consoled Lucretia sick at heart by
turning away the guilt from the woman having been forced to be raped against
the maker of the crime. They said that the mind commits the crime, not the
body, and from where there was no intention there is no blame. She said, “You
all will see to it that (you get) what is owed by him.”
ego me etsi peccato absolvo, supplicio non libero;
nec ulla deinde impudica Lucretiae exemplo vivet.” Cultrum, quem sub
veste abditum habebat, eum in corde defigit, prolapsaque in vulnus moribunda cecidit…
even if I acquit myself of the sin, I do not
free myself from punishment; nor any unchaste woman will live through the
example of Lucretia.” The knife, which she had hidden under her garment, she
plunged it into her heart, and having fallen forward onto the wound she fell
dying (= she fell dying having fallen forward onto the wound).
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