Carpe Diem
Reminds me of the last couplet of the pseudo-Vergilian ‘Copa', one of my favourites-:
pone merum et talos; pereat qui crastina curat:
Mors aurem uellens ‘uiuite’ ait, ‘uenio’.
Yes. I will do a post on that! I translate that last couplet
"Bring wine and dice, let not tomorrow spoil today:
Death plucks my ear: 'Live now", he says, "I’m on my way!"
How many people have squandered the lovely gift of life and happiness to satisfy others ideas of what is good or bad? How tragic and how stupid. Carpe diem.
Reminds me of the last couplet of the pseudo-Vergilian ‘Copa', one of my favourites-:
pone merum et talos; pereat qui crastina curat:
Mors aurem uellens ‘uiuite’ ait, ‘uenio’.
Yes. I will do a post on that! I translate that last couplet
"Bring wine and dice, let not tomorrow spoil today:
Death plucks my ear: 'Live now", he says, "I’m on my way!"
How many people have squandered the lovely gift of life and happiness to satisfy others ideas of what is good or bad? How tragic and how stupid. Carpe diem.