Gems, marble, ivory, Tuscan statues, pictures, silver- plate, robes dyed with Getulian purple, there are who can not acquire; and there are others, who are not solicitous of acquiring. Of two brothers, why one prefers lounging, play, and perfume, to Herod 's rich palm- tree groves; why the other, rich and uneasy, from the rising of the light to the evening shade, subdues his woodland with fire and steel: our attendant genius knows, who governs the planet of our nativity, the divinity[ that presides] over human nature, who dies with each individual, of various complexion, white and black. 