Agr. 46.1Sī quis piōrum mānibus locus, sī, ut sapientibus placet, nōn cum corpore extinguuntur magnae animae, placidē quiēscās, nōsque et domum tuam ab īnfirmō dēsīderiō et muliebribus lāmentīs ad contemplātiōnem virtūtum tuārum vocēs, quās neque lūgērī neque plangī fās est.If there is any place for the shades of the dutiful, if, as the wise hold, great souls do not perish with the body, may you rest in peace, and call us and your household from feeble longing and womanish lamentations to the contemplation of your virtues, which it is not right to mourn or bewail. Agr. 46.2Admīrātiōne tē potius et inmortālibus laudibus et, sī nātūra suppeditet, similitūdine colāmus: is vērus honōs, ea coniūnctissimī cuiusque pietās.Let us honour you rather with admiration, with immortal praises and, if nature permits, by resembling you: that is true honour, that is the devotion of all who are most closely bound to you. Agr. 46.3Id fīliae quoque uxōrīque praecēperim, sīc patris, sīc marītī memoriam venerārī, ut omnia facta dictaque eius sēcum revolvant, fōrmamque ac figūram animī magis quam corporis complectantur, nōn quia intercēdendum putem imāginibus quae marmore aut aere finguntur, sed, ut vultūs hominum, ita simulācra vultūs inbēcilla ac mortālia sunt, fōrma mentis aeterna, quam tenēre et exprimere nōn per aliēnam māteriam et artem, sed tuīs ipse mōribus possīs.This too I would enjoin on his daughter and his wife, so to venerate the memory of a father, of a husband, that they ponder all his deeds and words in their minds, and embrace the form and figure of his soul rather than of his body, not because I think we should forbid the images that are shaped in marble or bronze, but because, like the faces of men, the likenesses of those faces are frail and mortal, while the form of the mind is eternal, and you can keep it and express it not through another's material and art, but only through your own character.
Agr. 46.4Quidquid ex Agricolā amāvimus, quidquid mīrātī sumus, manet mānsūrumque est in animīs hominum in aeternitāte temporum, fāma rērum;Whatever we have loved in Agricola, whatever we have admired, remains and will remain in the minds of men, through the eternity of ages, in the fame of his deeds; Agr. 46.4nam multōs veterum velut inglōriōs et ignōbilīs oblīviō obruit: Agricola posteritātī narrātus et trāditus superstes erit.for oblivion will bury many of the ancients as if inglorious and ignoble: Agricola, told of and handed down to posterity, will survive.