Well-nigh the whole court of Antoninus is extinct.

Panthea and Pergamus sit no longer beside the sepulchre of their lord.

The watchers over Hadrian's dust have slipped from his sepulchre .-- It were jesting to stay longer.

Did they sit there still, would the dead feel it?
or feeling it, be glad?
or glad, hold those watchers for ever?
The time must come when they too shall be aged men and aged women, and decease, and fail from their places; and what shift were there then for imperial service?
This too is but the breath of the tomb, and a skinful of dead men's blood.
"Think again of those inscriptions, which belong not to one soul only, but to whole families: Eschatos tou idiou genous:+ He was the last of his race.

Nay! of the burial of whole cities: Helice, Pompeii: of others, whose very burial place is unknown.
"Thou hast been a citizen in this wide city.