Time, the Devourer of All Things (Latin)

Publius Ovidius Naso

Publius Ovidius Naso portrait

43 BCE to c.18

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Ergo ubi iam validis aevi virtutibus usus
tamen in ore manet; memores mihi fama, mei famaeque manebit,
omnia destruitis, vitiataque dentibus aevi
Tempus edax rerum, tuque invidiosa vetustas,
dum loquor atque aliis memoranda loquendaque tradam.
paulatim lenta consumitis omnia morte.
non habeo corpus, et aetas me destituitque,

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