Monday, June 16, 2025
We Grow Old
Ovid, Fasti 6.771-772 (tr. James G. Frazer, rev. G.P. Goold):
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Time slips away, and we grow old with silent lapse of years;Franz Bömer ad loc.:
there is no bridle that can curb the flying days.
tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis,
et fugiunt freno non remorante dies.
771 tempora labuntur eqs.: I 65. 772 fugiunt ... dies: Das Bild der „flüchtigen Zeit“ ist sprichwörtlich: I 65. ars III 79 (Text o. V 353). Cic. Tusc. I 76 volat enim aetas. Verg. georg. III 284 sed fugit interea, fugit inreparabile tempus. OTTO, Sprichwörter 112f.
