Book XIV, 66: Another to the Same

Fortunate and unfortunate (for thou wert born to be both) thou seekest a fatherland, but the mother-land of thy mother, not of thy father, is in an island neither near nor far from broad Crete, the land of Minos. In this island thou art fated to end thy life, when thou understandest not, on hearing it from the tongue of the boys, a chant ill to comprehend, uttered in crooked words. For thou hast chanced on two destinies in life, the one dimming thy two suns, and the other equal to that of the gods in thy life and in thy death; and dead, thou shalt not grow old for many ages.