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eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume, labuntur anni, nec pietas moram rugis et instanti senectae adferet indomitaeque morti
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woe! the fleeting years slip by, Postume, and pietas will not bring delay to wrinkles or to imminent old age and unconquerable death
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non, si trecenis, quotquot eunt dies, amice, places illacrimabilem Plutona tauris, qui ter amplum Geryonen Tityonque tristi compescit unda
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not even if with three hundred bulls [on] whatever number of days pass you appease tearless Pluto, who restrains triply large Geryon and Tityon with gloomy water [of the Styx]
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scilicet omnibus, quicumque terrae munere vescimur, enaviganda, sive reges sive inopes erimus coloni
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surely for all men who graze on earthly fruits [the skiff] is bound to depart, whether we be men of rank [e.g., kings] or impoverished farmers
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frustra cruento Marte carebimus fractisque rauci fluctibus Hadriae, frustra per autumnos nocentem corporibus metuemus Austrum
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in vain will we [try to] avoid bloody Mars and the hazardous waves of the boisterous Adriatic, in vain will we fear through the unhealthy season [Autumn] the Sirocco which harms our bodies
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visendus ater flumine languido Cocytus errans et Danai genus infame damnatusque longi Sisyphus Aeolides laboris
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the dark Cocytus wandering with languid water[s], the disgraced daughters of Danaus, and the Sisyphus, son of Aeolus, condemned to tedius labor must be seen [by all men]
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linquenda tellus et domus et placens uxor, neque harum quas colis arborum te praeter invisas cupressos ulla brevem dominum sequetur
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the earth, the home, the sweet wife--all must be abandoned; none of these trees that you cultivate will follow you--short-lived master--except the hated Cypress trees
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absumet heres Caecuba dignior servata centum clavibus et mero tinguet pavimentum superbo, pontificum potiore cenis
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a more deserving heir will squander your Caecuban wine kept with a hundred keys, and soak the tiled floor with choice wine, a banquet better than that of the priests
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