#mihy: 1.11

[mostlyfate]

MAY I HELP YOU 일당백집사 (2022)

Don't look at your phone while walking. What the? How'd you get here? It's far.

[scirenefas]

Horace, Odes 1.11

Tu ne quaesieris (scire nefas) quem mihi, quem tibi

finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios

temptaris numeros. Ut melius quicquid erit pati

seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,

quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare

Tyrrhenum, sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi

spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida

aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

_

Do not ask (to know is a sin) what end

the gods have given to me, or to you, Leuconoe,

nor try Babylonian numbers. How much better it is to suffer whatever will be

whether Jupiter has bestowed many more winters or the last,

which now weakens the Tyrrhenian Sea with opposing pumice stones;

be wise, strain wines, prune your long hope within a short length.

While we are speaking, envious age will have fled:

harvest the day, trusting as little as possible to the future.

– Horace, Odes 1.11

[a-soft-kind-of-braveness]

listen, i love almost all of pliny the younger’s letters, but i think about 1.11 quite a lot these days, and here’s why: i mean, pliny’s like: “the main thing is that my friend is fine, everything else is secondary” (“scribe [...] solum illud [...]: ‘si vales, bene est; ego valeo.’ hoc mihi sufficit; est enim maximum”). and to me, that’s something that shows so much love? and also something that i can really relate to. because he does not just say, “i think the world of my friends and nobody could ever convince me that i’m wrong” (and yes, that makes him sound like a great friend and i do get it), but he lets his worry and his friendship show and to me, it sounds like, “friends are important and a friend’s well-being is super important and they need to know this.” that’s just beautiful.

[darlinglove]

Tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati. seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

- Horácio. ode 1.11

[lionofchaeronea]

Carpe Diem

Horace, Odes 1.11 Do not ask, my Leuconoe (for it is not right to know) What final bound the gods have placed on my life or on yours; And do not try the horoscopes that Babylonians make. How much better it is for us to endure whatever comes- Whether Jupiter gives us more winters, or whether he’s bestowed The last- this one that now wears down the Adriatic Sea, Beating it against the facing pumice cliffs. Be wise- Strain the wine, and, too, pare back your lengthy hope to fit Within a narrow span of time.  For even while we speak, Begrudging Time will have flown away.  So pluck the fruit of now, And put as little trust as you can in what will come hereafter. Tu ne quaesieris (scire nefas) quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros. Ut melius, quicquid erit, pati, seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum! sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi spem longam reseces. Dum loquimur, fugerit invida aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

Father Time Overcome by Love, Hope, and Beauty, Simon Vouet, 1627

[latinthusiast]

Horace, Odes 1.11

tu ne quaesieris, scire nefas, quem mihi, quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati, seu pluris hiemes seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam, quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare Tyrrhenum. sapias, vina linques, et spatio breui spem longam reseces; dum loquimur, fugerit inuida aetas: carpe diem quam minimum credula postero.

[roelchristian]

Pliny the Younger, Letters 1.11 (to Fabius Justus; tr. Betty Radice):

I have not heard from you for a long time, and you say you have nothing to write about. Well, you can at least write that—or else simply the phrase our elders used to start a letter with: "If you are well, well and good; I am well." That will do for me—it is all that matters. Don't think I am joking; I mean it. Let me know how you are; if I don't know I can't help worrying a lot.

Olim mihi nullas epistulas mittis. Nihil est, inquis, quod scribam. At hoc ipsum scribe, nihil esse quod scribas, vel solum illud unde incipere priores solebant: "Si vales, bene est; ego valeo." Hoc mihi sufficit; est enim maximum. Ludere me putas? serio peto. Fac sciam quid agas, quod sine sollicitudine summa nescire non possum. Vale.

[mostlyfate]

MAY I HELP YOU 일당백집사 (2022)

Then, what about you, Brother? Why are you cheering for the two of them? You're even planning on the next plan. You're acting as if your nephew has to date because of some disease. Well... I'd glad to see Tae-hee move. What? Well... It's fun to tease him with it.