# Inspiration ___ ### Augustus in Alexandria After having visited the mausoleum of Alexander the Great in Alexandria, Augustus was asked if he also wanted to visit the mausoleum of the Ptolemies. His response: > I came to see a king, not a row of corpses. – Suetonius, _Divus Augustus,_ paragraph 16. Translation: Robert Graves, 1957 ___ ### Hávamál – Stanzas 77-78 > **77** > Cattle die, and kinsmen die, > And so one dies oneself; > But a noble name will never die > If good renown one gets. > > **78** > Cattle die, and kinsmen die, > And so one dies oneself; > One thing now that never dies, > The fame of a dead man's deeds. ___