9 For even if no troublous thing affrighted them, Yet, scared with the creepings of vermin and hissings of serpents,
10 they perished for very trembling, Refusing even to look on the air, which could on no side be escaped.
11 For wickedness, condemned by a witness within, is a coward thing, And, being pressed hard by conscience, always forecasts the worst lot:
12 For fear is nothing else but a surrender of the help which reason offers;
13 And from within the heart the expectation of them being less Maketh of greater account the ignorance of the cause that brings the torment.
14 But they, all through the night which was powerless indeed, And which came upon them out of the recesses of powerless Hades, All sleeping the same sleep,
15 Now were haunted by monstrous apparitions, And now were paralysed by their soul’s surrendering; For fear sudden and unlooked for came upon them.