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AD LEUCONOEN / Horace: Book I, Ode 13. / _"Tu ne quoesieris, scire nefas -- "_
It is not right for you to know, so do not ask, / Leuconoe, / How long a life the gods may give or ever we / are gone away; / Try not to read the Final Page, the ending / colophonian, / Trust not the gypsy's tea-leaves, nor the / prophets Babylonian. / Better to have what is to come enshrouded / in obscurity / Than to be certain of the sort and length of / our futurity. / Why, even as I monologue on wisdom and / longevity / How Time has flown! Spear some of it! / The longest life is brevity.