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O tempora! O mores! O what times (are these)! what morals!
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O tempora, o mores! What times! what morals!
— Favourite phrase, used on various occasions. See In Catilinam 1.1, In Verrem 4.25 and Pro rege Deiotaro 11.31.
O tempora, o mores!
cicero— O, the times, O, the customs!
— Variant translation: "What times! What morals!"
His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono; Imperium sine fine dedi.
virgil— No date, no goal I here ordain;
Theirs is an endless, boundless reign.Lines 278–279 (translated by John Conington).
Hic manus, ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi, Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, Quique pii vates, et Phoebo digna locuti, Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo; Omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
virgil— Here sees he the illustrious dead
Who fighting for their country bled;
Priests who while earthly life remained
Preserved that life unsoiled, unstained;
Blest bards, transparent souls and clear,
Whose song was worthy Phoebus' ear;
Inventors who by arts refined
The common lot of human kind,
With all who grateful memory won
By services to others done:
A goodly brotherhood, bedight
With coronals of virgin white.Lines 660–665 (translated by John Conington).Cf. Dryden's translation:
Here patriots live, who, for their country's good,
In fighting fields, were prodigal of blood:
Priests of unblemish'd lives here make abode,
And poets worthy their inspiring god;
And searching wits, of more mechanic parts,
Who grac'd their age with new-invented arts:
Those who to worth their bounty did extend,
And those who knew that bounty to commend.
The heads of these with holy fillets bound,
And all their temples were with garlands crown'd.
Judicis officium est ut res ita tempora rerum Quserere.
— The judge's duty is to inquire about the time, as well as the facts.
— Ovid, Tristium, I., 1. 37.
His ego nec metas rerum nec tempora pono; Imperium sine fine dedi.
— No date, no goal I here ordain;
Theirs is an endless, boundless reign.
— Lines 278–279 (translated by John Conington).
Hic manus, ob patriam pugnando vulnera passi, Quique sacerdotes casti, dum vita manebat, Quique pii vates, et Phoebo digna locuti, Inventas aut qui vitam excoluere per artes, Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo; Omnibus his nivea cinguntur tempora vitta.
— Cf. Dryden's translation:
Here patriots live, who, for their country's good,
In fighting fields, were prodigal of blood:
Priests of unblemish'd lives here make abode,
And poets worthy their inspiring god;
And searching wits, of more mechanic parts,
Who grac'd their age with new-invented arts:
Those who to worth their bounty did extend,
And those who knew that bounty to commend.
The heads of these with holy fillets bound,
And all their temples were with garlands crown'd.
O tempora, o mores!
— O, the times, O, the customs!
— Variant translation: "What times! What morals!"
Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos; tempora si fuerint nubila solus eris.
ovid— As long as you are fortunate you will have many friends, but if the times become cloudy you will be alone.
— Ovid, Tristium, I. 9. 5.
Atque utinam his potius nugis tota illa dedisset tempora sævitiæ.
— Would to heaven he had given up to trifles like these all the time which he devoted to cruelty.
— Juvenal, Satires, IV. 150.
tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis; Et fugiunt fræno non remorante dies. Time glides by, and we grow old with the silent years; and the days flee away with no restraining curb.
— Ovid, Fasti, VI. 771.
Interea glaciali figore rigenti insulae et velut longiore terrarum secessu soli visibili non proximae verus ille non de firmamento solum temporali sed de summa etiam caelorum arce tempora cuncta excedente universo orbi praefulgidum sui coruscum ostendens, tempore, ut scimus, summo Tiberii Caesaris, quo absque ullo impedimento delatoribus militum eiusdem, radios suos primum indulget, id est sua praecepta, Christus.
gildas— Translation: Meanwhile these islands, stiff with cold and frost, and in a distant region of the world, remote from the visible sun, received the beams of light, that is, the holy precepts of Christ, the true Sun, showing to the whole world his splendour, not only from the temporal firmament, but from the height of heaven, which surpasses every thing temporal, at the latter part, as we know, of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, by whom his religion was propagated without impediment, and death threatened to those who interfered with its professors.
— Section 8
Meanwhile these islands, stiff with cold and frost, and in a distant region of the world, remote from the visible sun, received the beams of light, that is, the holy precepts of Christ, the true Sun, showing to the whole world his splendour, not only from the temporal firmament, but from the height of heaven, which surpasses every thing temporal, at the latter part, as we know, of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, by whom his religion was propagated without impediment, and death threatened to those who interfered with its professors.
Interea glaciali figore rigenti insulae et velut longiore terrarum secessu soli visibili non proximae verus ille non de firmamento solum temporali sed de summa etiam caelorum arce tempora cuncta excedente universo orbi praefulgidum sui coruscum ostendens, tempore, ut scimus, summo Tiberii Caesaris, quo absque ullo impedimento delatoribus militum eiusdem, radios suos primum indulget, id est sua praecepta, Christus.
— De Excidio Britanniae (On the Ruin of Britain), Section 8
