"Serit arbores, quae saeclo prosint alteri."
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He sows the seed of trees that they may be a profit to another age. — Synephebi ('Comrades in Youth'), fragment 2; as quoted by Cicero, De Senectute, 7, 24 — Cf. Cicero, Tusculanae Disputationes, I, 14, 31 — Eugene S. McCartney, "Arbores Quae Alteri Saeculo Prosint", The Classical Journal, vol. 41, no. 2 (1945), pp. 75–78
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Caecilius Statius
Statius Caecilius, also known as Caecilius Statius (c. 220 – c. 166 BC), was a Celtic Roman comic poet.
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