Laudator Temporis Acti

Vergil, Aeneid 10.501-502 (tr. Frederick Ahl):

Witness the human mind, knowing nothing of fate or the future,
Nothing about moderation when puffed with success and good fortune!

nescia mens hominum fati sortisque futurae
et servare modum rebus sublata secundis!

The same, tr. J.W. Mackail:

Ah spirit of man, ignorant of fate and the allotted future, or to keep bounds when elate with prosperity!

Albert Forbiger ad loc.:

Cum v. 501. cf. Hor. Od. III, 29, 29. Ovid. Trist. V, 14, 29. Silium VI, 659. Stat. Theb. II, 93. Iuven. VI, 556. ad Herenn. IV, 24. Tac. Hist. II, 7. alios et Ruhnk. adnot. ad Hom. h. in Cer. 256., cum v. 502. autem Hor. Od. II, 3, 1 sqq. Liv. XXX, 42. Claud. XXII, 160. et plures alios. Conington comparat Hom. Il. XVII, 201. — Verba fati sortisque futurae repetuntur in Anth. Lat. I, 172, 153. I. 178. 111. et III, 81, 43. Cf. etiam Lactant. de Phoen. (in Wernsd. P. Lat. min. III, 321.) 161. at fortunatae sortis fatique volucrem (a Wold. Ribbeckio laud.). 502. — sublata, quod vulgo elata. Cf. Ter. Hec. III, 5, 56. Caes. B.G. I, 15. all. Quod ad sententiam attinet, Ladew. comparat' Liv. XXX, 42, 15. Raro simul hominibus bonam fortunam bonamque mentem dari. Cf. etiam Silius VIII, 546. hunc locum sic imitatus: heu rebus servare serenis Inconsulta modum et pravo peritura tumore!