“Make haste! The flood-tide of Fortune soon ebbs.”

— Silius Italicus , Punica

Pelle moras! Brevis est magni Fortuna favoris.
Book IV, line 732
Punica

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Pelle moras! Brevis est magni Fortuna favoris.

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Roman consul, orator, and Latin epic poet 26–101

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