A quotation from Horace

Ah, Postumus! they fleet away,
   Our years, nor piety one hour
Can win from wrinkles and decay,
   And Death’s indomitable power.
 
[Eheu fugaces, Postume, Postume,
labuntur anni nec pietas moram
rugis et instanti senectae
adferet indomitaeque morti.]

Horace (65–8 BC) Roman poet, satirist, soldier, politician [Quintus Horatius Flaccus]
Odes [Carmina], Book 2, # 14, l. 1ff (2.14.1-4) (23 BC) [tr. Conington (1872)]

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