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Seize the Day

Horace · Odes 1.11

Latin · Level 4 · ~1 min · Greater Asclepiad

Seize the Day

Horace, Odes 1.11

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. Ut melius, quidquid erit, pati.
Seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

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Horace, Odes 1.11. Source text. CC BY-SA 4.0. Perseus Digital Library (Tufts University), PerseusDL/canonical-latinLit; edition: P. Shorey & G. J. Laing, Sanborn 1919. Word analyses are machine-generated, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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