Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Otium

Otium, Catulle, tibi molestum est:
otio exsultas nimiumque gestis:
otium et reges prius et beatas
     perdidit urbes.

Catullus 51.13-16

Leisure, Catullus, is your vexation,
too enamored of procrastination;
Lords and lands past it has led
     to obliteration.

Boo this man.

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