Horace

As an instructor in a Great Texts program, the Doc can be relied upon to note such important things as Horace's birthday. As a man who has tried as many Latin courses as the majority of Americans have tried diets, I think it only right that I post Horace's most famous ode in the language in what he done wrote it.

Tu ne quaesieris - scire nefas - quem mihi, quem tibi
finem di dederint, Leuconoë, nec Babylonios
temptaris numeros. ut melius, quicquid erit, pati!
seu plures hiemes, seu tribuit Iuppiter ultimam,
quae nunc oppositis debilitat pumicibus mare
Tyrhenum. Sapias, vina liques, et spatio brevi
spem longam reseces. dum loquimur, fugerit invida
aetas: carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.

It comes courtesy of the Epicurus and Epicurean Philosophy homepage, where you can consult their rather questionable translation. But since I wouldn't dream of attempting my own translation, I should probably not say too much about that. Just enjoy the roll and taste of the Latin.