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ODE VII
[edit]Winter is over, and Spring is returning, but the time passes quickly and the seasons wait for no one. Yet they are renewed again, but man never renews his youth. So be merry while there is time, for we do not know when we die, and once dead, there is no return to life. Not even the gods can retrieve their favourites from death.
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References
[edit]- ↑ Dative expressing motion to (poetic)
- ↑ 'Earth changes her seasons' i.e. passes in regular order from Winter to Spring
- ↑ 'flow by' (i.e. within) their banks
- ↑ Nymphae,-arum, f.: minor deities presiding over the streams, trees and groves, the companions of the Graces and Faunus
- ↑ the Graces were represented as naked, & therefore quite afraid of chilly weather!
- ↑ the object clause expresses the matter of the warning
- ↑ attracted into the relative clause
- ↑ = simul ac
- ↑ fruited. Pomum is used of any fruit
- ↑ producing nothing
- ↑ damna caelesti 'their losses in the sky', i.e. monthly waning
- ↑ the antecendent eo must be supplied, as also decedit and deciderunt. The place meant is Orcus, i.e. Hades, the place of the dead, to which all must go
- ↑ Tullus Hostilius, 3rd king of Rome, 673-42 BC, and Ancus, 4th king, named as typical of the mighty in life brought to the same level by death
- ↑ the dead are reduced to dust (pulvis) and shades or ghosts (umbrae) in Hades
- ↑ 'whether the gods will add'. An can only introduce the alternatives in double questions. When as here it is used apparently to introduce a simple question, the other alternative has been suppressed
- ↑ i.e. all that one spends upon oneself, on one's own pleasure
- ↑ 'majestic', meaning the solemnity of Minos' judgment seat, where with Rhadamanthus and Aeacus he judged all souls coming to Hades
- ↑ King of Crete. Declines with with stem Mino-, the accusative having a Greek form
- ↑ 'goodness', including the duty of a man towards his parents, his country and gods
- ↑ Son of Theseus, and stepson of Phaedra, who tried to win her love. For his chastity, he was a favourite of Diana, who could not, in this case, save him from death
- ↑ A river in the infernal regions, causing forgetfulness of the past
- ↑ Friend of Theseus with whom he descended to Hades to carry off its queen, Proserpina. Theseus escaped, but Perithoös was chained there forever, as a punishment for his audacity