To seize me by, when met.
"Why is thy head then bald behind?
Because men wish in vain,
When I have run past on wingèd feet
To catch me e'er again.
"Why did the artist form thee so?
To place me in this hall,
That I a lesson thus might give
To thee, friend, and to all."
Ausonius, in the fourteenth century of the Christian era, imitates this in his 12th epigram.