And at last, not from the pen of Plato nor written in lines of gold, but set by a half-forgotten friend over an obscure grave,[61] comes the certitude of that long hope. Heliodorus and Diogeneia died on the same day and are buried under the same stone: but love admits no such bar to its continuance, and the tomb is as a bridal chamber for their triumphant life. ---------- [1] From the inscription on the tomb of Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus, Augur and Flamen Dialis, son of the conqueror of Hannibal. [2] Anth. Pal. vii. 249, 251, 253; Aristides, ii. 511. [3] Aristides, ii. 512; App. Plan. 26; Anth. Pal. vii. 258. [4] Anth. Pal. vii. 251; Thuc. ii. 41-43. [5] Thuc. vi. 59; Anth. Pal. vii. 509, 254, 513, 496. [6] Marc. Aur. iv. 44. [7] Kaibel, 576. [8] Anth. Pal. vii. 474. [9] iii. 33 in this selection. [10] Anth. Pal. vii. 662. [11] Ibid. vii. 453. [12] Ibid. vii. 261, 466. [13] Ibid. vii. 600; Kaibel, 204 B, 596. [14] Anth. Pal. vii. 482, 483. [15] Kaibel, 1 A. [16] Anth. Pal. vii. 671. [17] Propertius, IV. xii. 46. [18] Anth. Pal. vii. 182, 185, 711, 712. [19] Ibid. vi. 438, vii. 167, 163. [20] Ibid. vii. 466, ix. 254, vii. 735. [21] Anth. Pal. vii. 566. [22] Ibid. xi. 8. [23] Kaibel, 190; Anth. Pal. vii. 700, 459; C. I. G., 6261. [24] Anth. Pal. vii. 256, 259. [25] Ibid. vii. 477, x. 3. [26] Ibid. vii. 225, 285. [27] Anth. Pal. ix. 23. [28] Anth. Pal. vii. 636, ix. 7; cf. Virgil, Georg. ii. 468-70. [29] Ibid. vii. 284. [30] Ibid. vii. 285, 497, 376, 651, 263. [31] Ibid. vii. 639. [32] Ibid. vii. 630. [33] Anth. Pal. vii. 263, 534. [34] Ibid. ix. 271, vii. 293. [35] Ibid. vii. 264, 282, 675; 269, 350. [36] Ibid. vii. 499, 502, 739. [37] Anth. Pal. vii. 173, ix. 82, vii. 398, 660. [38] Ibid. vii. 524. [39] Cf. Ibid. x. 78, 85, 88, xi. 300. [40] Anth. Pal. ix. 315. [41] Ibid. vii. 321. [42] Ibid. vii. 657. The spirit, and much of the language, of these epigrams is very like that of Gray's /Elegy/. [43] Ibid. vii. 717. [44] Ibid. vii. 171. [45] Ibid. vii. 368. [46] Anth. Pal. 78, 483; Diog. Laert. iv. 25. [47] Ibid. vii. 178, 179; Kaibel, 47. [48] Ibid. vii. 189. [49] Ibid. vii. 199, 211, 203. [50] Il. xxiii. 19; Anth. Pal. vii. 41. [51] Ibid. vii. 509, 346. [52] Kaibel, 190. [53] Anth. Pal. vii. 667. [54] Ibid. vii. 269, 657. [55] Ibid. vii. 451. [56] Lucr. v. 663. [57] Anth. Pal. vii. 417. [58] Infra, xi. 7. [59] Plato, /Laws/, 959. [60] Anth. Pal. vii. 670. [61] Ibid. vii. 378, {agallomenoi kai taphon os thalamon}. XV