Quote#Time
Ah! Postumus! Devotion fails
Quote byJohn Conington · 1825–1869
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863), Book II, ode xiv.
English (original)
Ah! Postumus! Devotion fails The lapse of gliding years to stay, With wrinkled age it nought avails Nor conjures conquering Death away.
— John Conington
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