Talk:Horace

While I cannot prove Horace never said "Ars longa, vita brevis.", it is common to attribute this to Seneca, and to remark that it was a paraphrase of Hippocrates... -- Cimon avaro
 * Don't feel bad. No one could ever prove that Horace never said, "Ars longa, vita brevis." MisterJayEm 21:48, 18 October 2010 (UTC)

"Aetas" definition?
QUERY: I am confused. What does "Aetas" mean in this context? The English translation seems to me to skip over the word or should the word be considered as part of the 1st line? I know no Latin except for "carpe diem" .^_^.

"Dum loquimur, fugerit invida

Aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.


 * As we speak cruel time is fleeing. Seize the day, believing as little as possible in the morrow."

Wiktionary says ..... https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aetas


 * 1) (principally): the period of a life: lifetime, lifespan
 * 2) time of life, period of life, age quotations ▼
 * 3) an undefined, particularly long period of time: an age, an era, a term, a duration
 * 4) (metonymically) a generation

Thank you for your help, Wordreader (talk) 23:52, 22 January 2023 (UTC)