Saturday, 18 January 2014

HORACE: HAPPY THE MAN

Want this as my epitaph. 

I know I sound morbid but as I tell the people whom I love and have genuinely cared about me throughout, one must be practical in such matters. Recital went down very well, juxtaposed with Coffee Chains and Predictive Text for lighter relief. Used the same approach following Loss. 

ille potens sui
laetusque deget, cui licet in diem
  dixisse "vixi:  cras vel atra
    nube polum Pater occupato

vel sole puro;  non tamen irritum,
quodcumque retro est, efficiet neque
  diffinget infectumque reddet, 
    quod fugiens semel hora vexit 



I include the John Dryden translation.  








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