Lucilla Buried Verus,⁸ and follow'd him soon after. Secunda did the same Office for Maximus, and surviv'd but a little while. And thus it fared with Epitynehanus and Diotimus, with Antoninus, and Faustina, ⁹ with Celer , ¹⁰ and the Emperour Adrianus ; they assisted at one Funeral, and quickly made another themselves. Thus poor Mortals moulder away! Where are those Men of Reach, and Prognostication ? And t'other haughty fantastical Sparks? They made a great Noise, and Figure formerly, but what's become of them now? Where are those Celebrated Philosophers, Charax, Eudæmon, Demetrius the Platonist , and others of their Learning , and Character. Alass! They took but a turn in the World , and are gone long since. Some of them have sunk to Rights, and left no Memory behind them ; The History of others is overcast, and dwindled into Fables, and a Third sort have decayed farther , and dropt even out of a Romance. Your business is therefore to remember, that after Death your Body will fall in peices, and fly off into Atomes ; And as for your Spirit, that will either be extinguish'd, or removed into another Station.