Fickle men either hold a friend of little value when their own affairs are prosperous, or they abandon him when his are adverse. M. Tullius Cicero. De Amictia. Laelius on friendship. Section 64.
Image: Roman monument of a youth and his horse 1st century CE, Cyprus, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The architectural frame and the frontal pose of the youth are typical of a small group of grave monuments found on Cyprus. I was actually looking for a funerary monument of a soldier erected by his friends but I saw this monument and thought it was beautifully detailed. Some monuments of people who have died young often include family members but this sculpture includes only the youth and his loyal horse (of course the horse could also symbolize his social status as a member of the equestrian class).
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