Sir Thomas More On a Dead Slave
translated from the Greek Anthology 7. 538
Alive, he was a slave. Now dead, he too,
Darius the Great, can do as much as you.
Translated by Susan McLean
In Servum Mortuum
Hic servus dum vixit erat, nunc mortuus idem
Non quam tu, Dari magne, minora potest.