Exegi Monumentum ære perennius.
Regalique situ, &c.
A Monument than Brass more lasting, I,
Than Princely Pyramids in site more high
Have finished, which neither fretting Showrs,
Nor blustring Winds, nor flight of Years, and Hours,
Though numberless, can raze; I shall not die
Wholly; nor shall my best part buried lie
Within my Grave.
And Martial, Lib. 10. Ep. 2. thus speaks of his Writings;