Purum aut minorem annis, trahet mater secum si placet, sed ætatis puer perfectæ, eliget pro proprio placito viuere superstes, aut mori iuxta parentes.

" Mezentius would not live after his son: "Nunc vivo, nec adhuc homines lucemque relinquo, Sed linquam" And Pompey's wife cried out at the news of her husband's death, "Turpe mori post te solo non posse dolore, Violenta luctu et nescia tolerandi," as [3870]Tacitus of Agrippina, not able to moderate her passions.

Omnia appetunt bonum, all creatures seek the best, and for their good as they hope, sub specie, in show at least, vel quia mori pulchrum putant (saith Hippocrates) vel quia putant inde se majoribus malis liberari, to be freed as they wish.

The mournful remnants of demolished States, The Greek, the Roman, and long-exil'd Jew; Are living monuments of wasting War's Annihilating power: and while they mourn Their Grandeur faded, and their Power extinct, To every State memento mori sounds.