Book VI, Epigram 28 (Ker)

Melior's freedman, known to all men, he who perished while all Rome grieved, his dear patron's brief-lived darling, beneath this marble Glaucias lies in a tomb next the Flaminian way. Pure was he in manners, of modesty unstained, nimble of wit, with charm richly blest. To but twice six summers sped the boy was scarcely adding a single year. Traveller, who weepest for such a fate, never mayst thou have cause to weep!