Terminus.

Terminus

Quadratum infoditur firmissima tessera saxum,
Stat cirrhata super pectore imago tenus,
Et sese nulli profitetur cedere, talis
Terminus est,[1] homines qui scopus unus agit.
Est immota dies, praefixáque tempora fatis,
Deque ferunt primis ultima iudicium.[2]

A squared stone is set in the ground, an unshakable cube, and on it stands a curly-headed image, fashioned down to the chest. This declares that it yields to none. Such is Terminus, the one and only goal that governs men. There is an immovable day, times predetermined by fate, and the last times pronounce judgement on the first.

HAec Termini pictura nihil ulli concedentis, mortem
significat, quae inevitabilem habet in res omnes,
nedum homines necessitatem: ad quam cùm perveni-
mus, tum solent hominum qui sunt superstites, libe-
rae de nobis mortuis esse opiniones atque iudicia.