res: thy fortune -aetas: youth. Cf.1.9.17; 4.12.26, dum licet. sororum: sc. Parcarum, the Greek fates. Cf. Lowell, 'Spin, spin, Clotho, spin, Lachesis twist and Atropos sever'; Milton, Arcades, 'those that hold the vital shears'; Lycidas, 'comes the blind Fury with the abhorred shears| And slits the thin-spun life'; Plato. Rep. 617 c; F. Q. 4.2.48, . . . most wretched men whose days depend on threads so vain'; Boileau, Epître VI., 'mon esprit tranquille| Met à profit les jours que Ia Parque me file.'
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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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