Friday, November 01, 2024
The March of Time
Horace, Epistles 2.2.55-56 (tr. C. Smart):
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The advancing years rob us of every thing:Lucretius, On the Nature of Things 3.451-454 (tr. W.H.D. Rouse, rev. Martin F. Smith):
they have taken away my mirth, my gallantry, my revelings, and play.
singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;
eripuere iocos, venerem, convivia, ludum.
Afterwards, when the body is now wrecked with the mighty strength of time, and the frame has succumbed with blunted strength, the intellect limps, the tongue babbles, the intelligence totters, all is wanting and fails at the same time.See Marcus Deufert, Kritischer Kommentar zu Lukrezens De rerum natura (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018), pp. 158-159, who suggested fugit.
post ubi iam validis quassatum est viribus aevi
corpus et obtusis ceciderunt viribus artus,
claudicat ingenium, delirat lingua, <labat> mens,
omnia deficiunt atque uno tempore desunt.
453 labat add. Lachmann (vagat Palmer, Hermathena 4.8 [1882] 264; vagat vel vacat Everett, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 7 (1896) 31; meat Merrill, American Journal of Philology 21.2 [1900] 183-184; natat Orth, Helmántica 11 (1960) 311)