Epigram LXXVII. — To Pythagoras on Marcus who was said to be a Kidnapper

Pythagoras, Euphorbus' son, thou who dost renew the seeds of nature and to fresh bodies dost assign souls brought back to earth, say, what will Marcus be who has now felt fate's final stroke, if he return again to live in our air? "Who is Marcus?" "One lately known as seducer and kidnapper, who has debauched the entire sex, an unnatural scoundrel, or, as the bard Lucilius says, a pilfering paederast." "No bull, no mule, no hippocamel shall he be, no goat or ram, but he shall be a scarabaeus."