Let us never know what old age is. Let us know the happiness time brings, not count the years.

His many other verses show his concern for his family friends teachers and circle of well-to-do acquaintances and his delight in the technical handling of meter. Only the beginning and end are preserved.

310 – ca. His best-known poems are Mosella a description of the river Moselle and Ephemeris an account of a typical day in his life. 394) was a Latin poet and teacher of rhetoric at Burdigala (Bordeaux France).