“Ah! Postumus! Devotion fails
The lapse of gliding years to stay,
With wrinkled age it nought avails
Nor conjures conquering Death away.”

— John Conington

Book II, ode xiv
Translations, The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace (1863)

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British classical scholar 1825–1869

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