Sol 5.6

  1. When Time bears down upon a people,

    with all its crushing weight, it next settles upon others.

  2. So tell those who gloat over us: Come to your senses!

    Those who gloat will meet what we have met.

  3. We did not yield willingly out of cowardice; rather,

    our appointed deaths had come, and it was others’ turn.

  4. Thus is Time: its fortunes alternate,

    its vicissitudes returning time after time.

  5. Whoever one day exposes himself to Time’s perils

    will find the perils of Time deeply treacherous.

Sol 5.6