Know ye the flowery fields of the Cappadocian nation? thence I was born of good parents: since I left them I have wandered to the sunset and the dawn; my name was Glaphyrus, and like my mind. I lived out my sixtieth year in perfect freedom; I know both the favour of Fortune and the bitterness of life.
XVII ECCE MYSTERIUM BIANOR
This man, inconsiderable, mean, yes, a slave, this man is loved, and is lord of another's soul.
XVIII THE SHADOW OF LIFE THEOGNIS
Fools and children are mankind to weep the dead, and not the flower of youth perishing.
XIX THE SHADOW OF DEATH AUTHOR UNKNOWN
Those who have left the sweet light I bewail no longer, but those who live ever in expectation of death.
XX PARTA QUIES PALLADAS
Expectation of death is woful grief, and this is the gain of a mortal when he perishes; weep not then for him who departs from life, for after death there is no other accident.