“Now is the time for drinking, now the time to dance footloose upon the earth.”

Nunc est bibendum, nunc pede libero
pulsanda tellus.
Book I, ode xxxvii, line 1
Odes (c. 23 BC and 13 BC)

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Roman lyric poet -65–-8 BC

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