Book VII, Epigram 96 (Ker)

Buried am I here, by Bassus mourned, Urbicus, an infant, to whom mightiest Rome gave race and name. Six months were wanting of my first three years when the harsh Goddesses cruelly snapt my thread. What availed me my beauty, what my prattle, what my age? Give thou, who readest this, tears to my tomb: so may he, whom thou wouldst have survive thy years, pass not to the waters of Lethe, save when older than Nestor!