Note 51 — Chapter II · THE MEANING OF NUMBERS
Charles Francis Atkinson translation
Horace’s words (Odes I xi): “Tu ne quæsieris, scire nefas, quem mihi quem tibi finem di dederint, Leuconoë, nec Babylonios temptaris numeros ... carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero.”—Tr.