Professors XXIV. — To Acilius Glabrio the Younger, of Bordeaux, a Grammarian

Fallen with short span alike of learning and of years, you will I commemorate in mournful verse, Glabrio — a name drawn from a line of famous ancestors— Glabrio, son of Acilinus, offspring of Dardanus. In old days we were boys together; then you became my pupil, and next, when I was made rhetorician, you became grammarian. In the courts you were the bulwark of the accused; in the country you farmed your estate, and deserved long to enjoy the fruits you earned. Obliging, cheerful, kindly temperate, you were always as ready to give advice as silent when you had given it. At once all the pride of your kin as presently their sorrow, you leave all desolate, my Glabrio, reft from us by untimely death: wife, children, father, mother, left — alas, under how many names were you lost to them l Long mourned by me, though never mourned enough, your name is here recorded for all time; and so, friend Glabrio, receive my sorrowful farewell!