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Horace Ode 1.11
Perhaps Horace’s most famous ode, recited with careful attention to syllable length and meter. Text is taken from the 1855 Tuebner edition of Horace’s complete works.
Tu ne quaesieris scire nefas quem mihi quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios
tentaris numeros. Vt melius quidquid erit pati!
seu plures hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrrhenum: sapias vina liques et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur fugerit invida
aetas: Carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.
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