Marcia's son · Atlas

in the texts

Marcia's deceased son, a young man of notable virtue, chastity, and devotion to his mother, whose early death is the occasion for the consolation.

A holy company received him—the Scipios and the Catos, and, among the despisers of life and those set free by poison, your father, Marcia.

Only the image of your son has perished, and a likeness not very like;

Whole, and leaving nothing of himself on earth, he has fled and wholly departed;