Book XIV, 126

This tomb holds Diophantus. Ah, how great a marvel the tomb tells scientifically the measure of his life. God granted him to be a boy for the sixth part of his life, and adding a twelfth part to this, he clothed his cheeks with down; He lit him the light of wedlock after a seventh part, and five years after his marriage He granted him a son. Alas late-born wretched child; after attaining the measure of half his father’s life, chill Fate took him. After consoling his grief by this science of numbers for four years he ended his life.