As wave is driven by wave. And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before. Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.
— Ovid Ancient

Metamorphoses

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Metamorphoses (Book 15, Lines 179-183).

Date / Period

c. 8 CE

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Philosophical

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