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Quotation from The Odes and Carmen Saeculare by Horace
“Ah, Postumus! they fleet away, Our years, nor piety one hour Can win from wrinkles and decay, And Death's indomitable power;”
The Odes and Carmen Saeculare, Book II, Ode 14 (Eheu fugaces), trans. John Conington (1863)
The opening of the ode on the swift passing of life.
Citation: "Ah, Postumus! they fleet away, Our years, nor piety one hour Can win from wrinkles and decay, And Death's indomitable power;" — Horace, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare, Book II, Ode 14 (Eheu fugaces), trans. John Conington (1863). (id horace-odes-q3)
