No? Reflect that you're older each year than the last;
That we all must grow gray, and the wrinkles come fast.
Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides
Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides.

ἀλλὰ πέρρ ἀπάλω στύματός σε πεδέρχομαι
ὀμνάσθην, ὅτι πέρρυσιν ἦσθα νεώτερος,
κὤττι γηράλεοι πέλεμεν πρὶν ἀπύπτυσαι
καὶ ῥύσοι, νεότατα δ᾿ ἔχειν παλινάγρετον
οὐκ ἔστι· πτέρυγας γὰρ ἐπωμιδίαις φόρη,
κἄμμες βαρδύτεροι τὰ ποτήμενα συλλάβην.

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