Vergil,
Aeneid 12.649-650 (Turnus speaking; tr. H. Rushton Fairclough):
... never unworthy of my mighty forebears.
... magnorum haud umquam indignus
avorum.
Richard Tarrant ad loc.:
T.'s wish to prove himself worthy of his ancestors is a quintessentially Roman
trait. Propertius' Cornelia, recently arrived in the Underworld, exhibits a similar
concern. Her speech ends with a probable echo of T.'s words (4.11.99-100): sim
digna merendo
| cuius honoratis ossa uehantur auis. (auis is Heinsius' emendation for
the manuscript readings aquis and equis; the Virgilian parallel may give it some
additional support.) See also Oakley on Livy 7.10.3.