Horace+Odes+1.11

fifth/greater Asclepiadean
 * Horace, //Odes// 1.11**

//You, do not seek (it is a sacrilege to know) what end//
 * Tu ne quaesieris (scire nefas), quem mihi, quem tibi**

//the gods have given to me and to you, Leuconoe, and do not try the Babylonian//
 * finem di dederint, Leuconoe, nec Babylonios**

//numbers. How better it is, to suffer whatever will be!// - temptaris - temptaveris - perfect subjunctive
 * temptaris numeros. ut melius, quidquid erit, pati!**

//Whether Jupiter assigns more winters or whether he has assigned the last [winter],//
 * seu pluris hiemes, seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,**

5 **quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare** //which now weakens the Tyrrheneian sea with pumice stones://

//you should be wise, you should strain wine and you should restrain//
 * Tyrrhenum: sapias, vina liques et spatio brevi**

//long hope because of the brief time [of our lives]. While we speak, a jealous age will have fled://
 * spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida**

//seize the day, trusting to the least extent possible to the future.//
 * aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.**