I announce all this in public so that my household will love me as well now as they will when I'm dead." They all commenced to pay tribute to the generosity of their master, when he, putting aside his trifling, ordered a copy of his will brought in, which same he read aloud from beginning to end, to the groaning accompaniment of the whole household.

Then, looking at Habinnas, "What say you, my dearest friend," he entreated; "you'll construct my monument in keeping with the plans I've given you, won't you?
I earnestly beg that you carve a little bitch at the feet of my statue, some wreaths and some jars of perfume, and all of the fights of Petraites.

Then I'll be able to live even after I'm dead, thanks to your kindness.

See to it that it has a frontage of one hundred feet and a depth of two hundred.

I want fruit trees of every kind planted around my ashes; and plenty of vines, too, for it's all wrong for a man to deck out his house when he's alive, and then have no pains taken with the one he must stay in for a longer time, and that's the reason I particularly desire that this notice be added: -- THIS MONUMENT DOES NOT-- -- DESCEND TO AN HEIR-- "In any case, I'll see to it through a clause in my will, that I'm not insulted when I'm dead.