Sunday 12 November 2023

On Sudden Death

José Miguel João de Portugal e Castro, Marquis of Valença and Count of Vimioso (1706-1775):

‘De repentina morte’
 
De brevitate queri vitae nos saepe solemus;
   Cum mage sit nobis mors metuenda brevia

'On sudden death'
 
We often complain of how life passes by so swiftly, when a swift death ought to be more worrisome to us.
José Miguel J. de Portugal, Epigrammatum liber unus (Lisbon: ex praelo Michælis Rodrigues, 1732), p. 35. My translation.