On Famous Women

...she raised her head anxiously. Noticing a lioness approaching, she fled
into the tomb original: "in bustum." In the myth, the lovers agree to meet at the tomb of Ninus, the legendary founder of Nineveh. leaving her cloak behind in her haste. The lioness, however, having fed and
quenched her thirst, found the cloak; for a time, she rubbed her bloody mouth
against it, as is the habit of beasts, and having wiped it, she left it torn
by her claws and went away.
Meanwhile, Pyramus, arriving later after likewise leaving home, came into the
woods. While searching intently through the silence of the night, he discovered the torn
and bloodied cloak. Thinking Thisbe had been devoured by the beast, he filled
the place with great wailing, accusing his wretched self because
he had provided the cause of a cruel death for his most beloved maiden.
Scorning life from that moment on, he drew the sword he carried and,
dying, plunged it into his breast beside the spring. Without delay,
Thisbe—thinking the lioness had drunk and left—began to return step by
step to the spring, lest she should seem to have failed her lover
or keep him hanging in long expectation. As she drew near,
sensing Pyramus still quivering original: "palpitantem," describing the involuntary movements of a body in the throes of death., she was terrified and nearly fled again.
At last, by the light of the moon, she perceived...