Book IX, Epigram 51 (Ker)

What thou didst alway crave of the High Gods, though thy brother said nay, this has fallen to thee, Lucanus — tlie earlier death. He envies thee; for Tullus longed, though younger than thou, to go before thee to the Stygian shades. Thou dwellest in Elysian fields, and, denizen of that pleasant grove, now for the first time desirest to be without thy brother; and, if Castor has now come alternate from the lustrous stars in Pollux' stead, thou dost counsel him not to return again.