“Quid nam sit tempus? Se scire, aut dicere posse...”

1721

Caterina Imperiale Lercari Pallavicini, Marchioness of Mombaruzzo

Original Text

Arcadum Carmina: Pars Prior. Rome: Antonius de Rubeis, 1721, p. 69.

Transcription

EPIGRAMMA.

Quid nam sit tempus? Se scire, aut dicere posse       Unâ omnes, sapiens, insipiensque negant. Nempe animus noster vitam scit, tempora nescit:       Aeternum quid enim praetereuntis habet? Sed cur tristatur de praetereuntibus annis?       Heu timet iratum sistier ante Deum! Sistar ego: sed qualis ero? sons dicar, an insons?       Utraque, care Deus, si mihi parcis, ero.

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