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The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another. — Horace

Letter

The years as they pass plunder us of one thing after another.

In the original Latin

Singula de nobis anni praedantur euntes;

Horace
14 BC
★ 3.8
Provenance
Current citation
Horace. "Epistles." Satires and Epistles, translated by John Davie. Oxford University Press, 2011, bk. 2, epistle 2.
Original citation
Horace. Epistularum liber secundus [Second Book of Letters]. 14 BC, bk. 2, epistle 2.

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