Talk:Horace

While I cannot prove Horace never said "Ars longa, vita brevis.", it is common to attribute this to Seneca, and to remark that it was a paraphrase of Hippocrates... -- Cimon avaro

Don't feel bad. No one could ever prove that Horace never said, "Ars longa, vita brevis." MisterJayEm 21:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

"Aetas" definition?

QUERY: I am confused. What does "Aetas" mean in this context? The English translation seems to me to skip over the word or should the word be considered as part of the 1st line? I know no Latin except for "carpe diem" .^_^.

"Dum loquimur, fugerit invida

Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

• As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."

Wiktionary says ..... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aetas

1. (principally): the period of a life: lifetime, lifespan
2. time of life, period of life, age quotations ▼
3. an undefined, particularly long period of time: an age, an era, a term, a duration
4. (metonymically) a generation

Thank you for your help, Wordreader (talk) 23:52, 22 January 2023 (UTC)

Draft

• Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
  • Ars Poetica, 139
  • Cf. Matthew Paris (AD 1237), Fuderunt partum montes: en ridiculus mus. [The labouring mountains shook the earth, / And to a paltry mouse gave birth.]