VENOSA, Italy - Horace, the great Latin poet of ancient Rome, was confident of his literary legacy: "I have achieved a monument more lasting than bronze, and loftier than the pyramids of kings ...

Swift Faunus, the god, will quite often exchange Arcady for my sweet Mount Lucretilis, and while he stays he protects my goats from the midday heat and the driving rain. The wandering wives of the ...

My first encounter with the phrase carpe diem – seize the day – was in a Latin lesson about 50 years ago, while studying ...

Eyres retranslates Horace's famous line “carpe diem” (Odes 1.11) as “taste the day”. In his translation of the poem, the girl Leuconoe becomes “Prudence”.

Horace’s words have served to inspire many people, notably in the film “Dead Poets Society,” in which Robin Williams exhorts his students to make the most of their lives in the face of death.

"Carpe diem." - SENECA. "Go it while you 're young." - SHAKSPERE. [Horace, and not the Crimson, is responsible for the moral of this Ode. Its publication was withheld until after the Semi-annuals ...

Roman Krznaric, a social philosopher in the United Kingdom, is the author most recently of Carpe Diem: Seizing the Day in a Distracted World. Breathe. Be in the moment. Live in the here and now ...

VENOSA, Italy - Horace, the great Latin poet of ancient Rome, was confident of his literary legacy: After 2,000 years, ‘carpe diem’ still resonates in hometown of Horace – Winnipeg Free ...