Horace+Odes+4.7

__**Horace Odes 4.7**__

//The snows fled in several directions, now the grasses return to the fields and//
 * Diffugere nives, redeunt iam gramina campis**

//the leaves [return] to the trees,//
 * arboribusque comae,**

//the earth changes in cycles and the receeding rivers pass by//
 * mutat terra vices et decrescentia ripas**

//their shores,//
 * flumina praetereunt,**

//naked Grace with the nymphs and the twin sisters dares//
 * 5 Gratia cum Nymphis geminisque sororibus audet**

//to lead the crowds.//
 * ducere nuda choros.**

//The year and the hour, which snatches away the gracious day//
 * inmortalia ne speres, monet annus et almum**

//warns that you should not hope for immortal things.//
 * quae rapit hora diem.**

//Cold melts with the west wind, the summer, about to perish, crushes the spring,//
 * frigora mitescunt Zephyris, ver proterit aestas**

//as soon as fruitful autumn//
 * 10 interitura, simul**

//will have brought forth crops, and soon//
 * pomifer autumnus fruges effuderit, et mox**

//the lazy winter returns.//
 * bruma recurrit iners.**

//The swift moons however recover the celestial losses://
 * damna tamen celeres reparant caelestia lunae:**

//when we fall down,//
 * nos ubi decidimus,**

//whither father Aeneas and rich Tullus and Ancus [have fallen],//
 * 15 quo pater Aeneas, quo Tullus dives et Ancus,**

//we are dust and shadow.//
 * pulvis et umbra sumus.**

//Who knows whether the higher gods will add tomorrow's time//
 * quis scit, an adiciant hodiernae crastina summae**

//to the sum of today?//
 * tempora di superi?**

//Everything, which you will have given to one's own spirit, will flee//
 * cuncta manus avidas fugient heredis, amico**

//the greedy hands of the heir.//
 * 20 quae dederis animo.**

//When you have died once and for all, and Minos//
 * cum semel occideris, et de te splendida Minos**

//will have made splendid decisions about you,//
 * fecerit arbitria,**

//neither, Torquatus, your race, nor your eloquence,//
 * non, Torquate, genus, non te facundia, non te**

//nor your piety will restore you://
 * restituet pietas:**

//nor does Diana free Hippolytus from the infernal//
 * 25 infernis neque enim tenebris Diana pudicum**

//darkness//
 * liberat Hippolytum,**

//nor is Theseus powerful enough to break the chains//
 * nec Lethaea valet Theseus abrumpere caro**

//for dear Pirithous.//
 * vincula Pirithoo.**