To all overlanders, safe journey, and Carpe Diem!
My favourite phrase! Carpe Diem is widely translated to mean "Seize the Day", more accurate, would be, "Gather the Day", as in Horace's poem;
"Leuconoe, don't ask — it's dangerous to know — what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian fortune-telling either. Better just deal with whatever comes your way.
Whether you'll see several more winters or whether the last one Jupiter gives you is the one even now pelting the rocks on the shore with the waves of the Tyrrhenian sea-
-be smart, drink your wine.
Scale back your long hopes to a short period. Even as we speak, envious time is running away from us.
Gather the day, there is nothing else beyond that".
Horace died in 8 BC.
My favourite phrase! Carpe Diem is widely translated to mean "Seize the Day", more accurate, would be, "Gather the Day", as in Horace's poem;
"Leuconoe, don't ask — it's dangerous to know — what end the gods will give me or you. Don't play with Babylonian fortune-telling either. Better just deal with whatever comes your way.
Whether you'll see several more winters or whether the last one Jupiter gives you is the one even now pelting the rocks on the shore with the waves of the Tyrrhenian sea-
-be smart, drink your wine.
Scale back your long hopes to a short period. Even as we speak, envious time is running away from us.
Gather the day, there is nothing else beyond that".
Horace died in 8 BC.