Note f — BOOK V.
Reading edition
Tears serve not only to moisten the Eye, to clean and brighten the Cornea, and to express our Grief; but also to alleviate it, according to that of Ulysses to Andromache, in Seneca’s Troas, ℣. 762.
Tempus moramque dabimus, arbitrio tuo Implere lacrymis: Fletus ærumnas levat.