Augustus his Court is buried long since ; His Empress, and Daughter, His Grand Children , and Sons in Law , his Sister and Agrippa, His Relations and Domesticks, Physicians, and Undersacrificers, His Favourites, such as Arius the Philosopher, and Mæcenas, they are all gone.

Go on from single Persons to Families, that of the Pompeyes , for instance , and you'l find the whole Line Extinct. This Man was the last of his House , is not uncommon upon a Monument. How solicitous were the Ancestors of such People about an Heir ; and yet the Family must of necessity sink, and the Blood fail at one time or other.