Before the day of his last departure no man is to be called happy.
Inanzi al dí de l'ultima partita
huom beato chiamar non si convene.
huom beato chiamar non si convene.
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Compare | Ultima semper
exspectanda dies hominis, dicique beatus
ante obitum nemo supremaque funera debet. | Always,
A man must wait the final day, and no man
Should ever be called happy before burial. | Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book III, lines 135–137 (trans. R. Humphries)