Professors XXIII. — To Dynamius of Bordeaux, who Taught and Died in Spain

From you also, Dynamius, I will not withhold my sad complaint — from you, my fellow-citizen and a pleader here; who fled the country with a good name tarnished by a charge of adultery, to whom tiny Lerida gave a snug hiding-place, whom a Spanish wife enriched while you lay hid; for there, under a changed name, you were a rhetorician — a rhetorician disguised under the name of Flavinus for fear the story of your slip should betray you as the runaway. And though of your own accord you came back later to your native place, your home in Ilerda soon drew you back to live at ease.

Whatever may have been the nature of your flight, and whatever your repute, old friendship links you and me together; and therefore, if the shades can feel at all, accept this friendly service, Dynamius, albeit offered this long while after your death. Though you have ceased to be and lie buried in a distant land, my reverent care dedicates this sad plaint to your memory.