< Translation:Odes (Horace) < Book II
 == The Inevitability of Death ==
              Latin Text

  Ēheu fugācēs, Postume, Postume,
  lābuntur annī nec pietās moram
  rūgīs et īnstantī senectae
  adferet indomitaeque mortī,
5 nōn sī trecēnīs quotquot eunt diēs,
  amīce, plācēs inlacrimābilem
  Plūtōna taurīs, quī ter amplum
  Gēryonēn Tityonque trīstī
  conpēscit undā, scīlicet omnibus
10 quīcumque terrae mūnere vēscimur,
  ēnāvigandā, sīve rēgēs
  sīve inopēs erimus colōnī.
  Frūstrā cruentō Mārte carēbimus
  frāctīsque raucī flūctibus Hadriae,
15 frūstrā per autumnōs nocentem
  corporibus metuēmus Austrum:
  vīsendus āter flūmine languidō
  Cōcȳtos errāns et Danaī genus
  īnfāme damnātusque longī
20 Sīsyphus Aeolidēs labōris.
  Linquenda tellūs et domus et placēns
  uxor neque hārum quās colis arborum
  tē praeter invīsās cupressōs
  ūlla brevem dominum sequētur.
25 Absūmet hērēs Caecuba dignior
  servāta centum clāvibus et merō
  tinguet pavīmentum superbō,
  pontificum potiōre cēnīs.

150.243.145.215 04:19, 18 April 2018 (UTC)EmilyCamden

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