Shakespeare's funerary monument Socrates in genius, a Maro in art," comparing Shakespeare to Nestor the wise King of Pylus, to the Greek philosopher Socrates, and to the Roman poet Virgil (whose last name, or "cognomen" was Maro). The second reads "The earth buries him, the people mourn him, Olympus possesses him," referring to Mount Olympus, the home of the Greek gods. The English poem reads: As modernized by Katherine Duncan-Jones: Stanley Wells is one of the few biographers to comment on the poem, saying that it "somewhat cryptically calls on the passer-by to pay tribute to his greatness as a writer", and admitting
Rowland Vaughan (poet) Manuscripts at Aberystwyth. Vaughan's land-holdings passed to several generations of his descendants but ultimately merged with those of Syr Watkin Williams Wyn circa 1740 Rowland Vaughan (poet) Rowland Vaughan (c.1590 – 18 September 1667) was a Welsh poet, translator and jurist. Vaughan was the owner of Caer Gai, more recently recognized as a Roman fort, in the parish of Llanuwchlyn, Merioneth, four miles to the west of Bala.His paternal family derived from the Vaughans of Llwydiarth and his mother Ellen, came from the Nanney or Nannau estate in the same county. Vaughan's wife was from Llanuwchlyn. Vaughan studied in Oxford