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Heathcote William Garrod, comp. (1878–1960). The Oxford Book of Latin Verse. 1912.

C. Sulpicius Apollinaris circa 140 A.D.

Epitaph of Seneca

CVRA, labor, meritum, sumpti pro munere honores,

ite, alias posthac sollicitate animas!

me procul a uobis deus euocat. ilicet actis

rebus terrenis, hospita terra, uale.

corpus, auara, tamen sollempnibus accipe saxis:

namque animam caelo reddimus, ossa tibi.