Ovid,
Fasti 6.771-772 (tr. James G. Frazer, rev. G.P. Goold):
Time slips away, and we grow old with silent lapse of years;
there is no bridle that can curb the flying days.
tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis,
et fugiunt freno non remorante dies.
Franz Bömer ad loc.:
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.