The poets' scrolls will outlive the monuments of stone. Genius survives; all else is claimed by death. — Edmund Spenser, Shepherd's Calendar, Colin's Emblem. End (1715). Quoted. Peacham, Minerva Britanna I (1612). Said to be from Consolatio ad Liviam, by an anonymous author, written shortly after Mæcenas' death. Attributed to Vergil and Ovid. See Notes and Queries, Jan., 1918, p. 12. Robinson Ellis, Appendix Vergiliana. Riese, Anthologia Latinahttps://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Genius