Manlius, his sire, and strike
Strangers when the boy they meet
As his father’s counterfeit,
And his face the index be
Of his mother’s chastity.”[13]
The epitaphs and the elegies of the Greek Anthology have their counterpart in Latin. Mr. Thompson has tried his hand at a passage from Statius:[14]—
ON THE DEATH OF A CHILD.
Shall I not mourn thee, darling boy? with whom,
Childless I missed not children of my own;
I, who first caught and pressed thee to my breast,