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.
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, meat Merrill)
