Words Worth Noting - November 27, 2023

“an early version of Horace’s carpe diem advice: ‘Seize time by the forelock.”

Pittacus of Mytilene (c. 650-570 BC) “a moderate democratic reformer…. [in] Mytilene, the chief city of the island of Lesbos” in Peter D’Epiro and Mary Desmond Pinkowish, What are the Seven Wonders of the World? and 100 Other Great Cultural Lists – Fully Explicated. [Incidentally in the 3rd Nero Wolfe novel, The Rubber Band, the early supposedly non-bookish Archie Goodwin at one point asks Wolfe “Are you going to grab time by the forelock?”