Professors XIV. — To Censorius Atticus Agricius, The Rhetorician

For mastery in eloquence worthy to be ranked equal with the foremost, here, Agricius, you have been set in a lower place: since you were born and died in later years, I had delayed to mention you, yet had not also forgotten you. But be your place where it may, my sad lament shall recall your memory: early or late, homage paid to the dead is all one. The nobility of your birth was not less lofty than the renown of your eloquence — renown, no stranger to your chair here in this second Athens: bestowed on Nazarius and famous Patera in former days, it trained to highest perfection many a youth. Now you have left a wife, children, and a son-in-law here on this earth and cheer the shades of your ancestors in their tombs.