Professors XIX. — Sedatus, the Rhetorician of Toulouse

It were a thing unholy to leave you unmentioned, Sedatus, although it was abroad that you obtained your post as teacher. We had one native place, you and I; but the hazards of all-powerful Destiny gave you a chair at Toulouse. There you found a wife, and children, and riches for your old age, with such renown as is the due of a great rhetorician. Yet from that land, however far, your native place now brings you home, and after death claims you again as its citizen. You may have strayed away and spent your pains on a distant city, but the country of your birth resumes its right to you. And now your sons are following their father's example, and adding to the renown of Narbo and of Rome with their learning. But why do we complain? After long years, will they or nill they, Fame will bring them also back to Bordeaux.