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We shall make an epitaph for his heels in four lines of the poet: Aere perennius, So that the fine man, happier than any pig, might say with the poet: Non omnis moriar, multaque pars mei Vitabit Libitiam. I shall not die entirely, a great part of me shall avoid Hell. That is: Manditur ore suum, qui porcum vixerat, hujus Membra beata cluunt, podice fusa suum.
The man is in consular habit, the toga, neque fusa neque restricta, worn till the time of Augustus. His feet appear beneath the tunic. Unfortunately the face is too much weathered to present any features. Not so the tall, mitred central figure, whose right hand is raised, as is thought, to hold a staff wreathed with chaplets. The third figure is that of a Roman matron.
The latter, in speaking of the nature of the voice, gives us a string of epithets which it would be hopeless to attempt to translate: "Nam est et candida, et fusca, et plena, et exilis, et levis, et aspera, et contracta, et fusa, et dura, et flexibilis, et clara, et obtusa; spiritus etiam longior, breviorque."