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Time, the devourer of all things. — Ovid

Poem

Time, the devourer of all things.

In the original Latin

Tempus edax rerum.

Ovid
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Topic
Effects of timeRelentlessness of timeTime
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Metaphor, analogy and simile
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Poem
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Ovid
Provenance
Current citation
Ovid. Metamorphoses, translated by David Raeburn. Penguin Classics, 2004, bk. 15, l. 234.
Original citation
Ovid. Metamorphōsēs [Metamorphoses]. c. 8 CE, bk. 15, l. 234.

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