Parentalia XVIII. — Flavius Sanctus, Husband of Pudentilla, the Sister of my Wife Sabina

You, Sir, who love jests and merriment, you who hate all moroseness, neither fearing any man nor causing any man to fear, who entrap no man by trickery nor vex him at the law, but mildly and wisely live an upright life, come with reverent lips and words of good omen to do honour to the peaceful shade and the remains of kindly Sanctus. His service he performed diligently without tumult; with him for governor the Rutupian land rejoiced; his eighty years a peaceful old age marred not with any day of decline. Therefore be this your propitious prayer, that Sanctus may enjoy such peace among the shades as he found in the season of his life.