Time, the Devourer of All Things (Latin)
Publius Ovidius Naso
43 BCE to c.18
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Tempus edax rerum, tuque invidiosa vetustas,
omnia destruitis, vitiataque ______ aevi
paulatim lenta consumitis omnia morte.
Ergo ubi iam ______ aevi virtutibus usus
non habeo corpus, et aetas me destituitque,
tamen in ore manet; memores mihi fama, mei famaeque manebit,
dum loquor atque aliis memoranda loquendaque tradam.
dentibus
validis