spem longam: hopes that look far into the future; cf. 1. 4. 15, the 'long thoughts' of youth; 'quittez le long espoir et les vastes pensées.' Cf. Cowley, Shortness of Life, 'Horace advises very wisely, and in excellent good words, spatio brevi spem longam reseces; from a short life cut off, all hopes that grow too long.'—dum loquimur: cf. Persius, 5. 153, vive memor leti, fugit hora, hoc quod loquor inde est; Longfellow, 'Wisely the Hebrews admit no present tense in their language; While we are speaking the word, it is already the past'; Boileau, 'Le moment ou je parle est déjà loin de moi.'—fugerit: will be gone. Cf. Lucret. 3. 915, iam fuerit; Milton, 'Fly, envious time, till thou run out thy race'; Fitzgerald's Omar Khayyám, 7, 'The Bird of time has but a little way | To flutter and the Bird is on the wing.'—invida: that grudges to grant the prayer of happy youth, 'O temps, suspends ton vol,' etc. (Lamartine).
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Horace. Odes and Epodes. Edited with commentary by. Paul Shorey. revised by. Paul Shorey and Gordon J. Laing. New York. Benj. H. Sanborn and Co. 1910.
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