Bright youth passes swiftly as a thought.

αἶψα γὰρ ὥστε νόημα παρέρχεται ἀγλαὸς ἥβη.

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Original Citation

Theognis. Elegies. c. 541 BC.

Current Citation

Theognis. "Elegies." Hesiod and Theognis: Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies, translated by Dorothea Wender. Penguin Classics, 1976.