[1466] few times thou seest.
[1467] Foolish haste.
[1468] Beguiles.
[1469] considers not.
[1470] learn.
[1471] Atropos, eldest of the Fates, presiding over death.
[1472] youngest of the Fates, presiding over birth.
[1473] “Extremes are vicious.” The poet here advocates Horace’s “golden mean,” the counsel of the Greek proverb Μηδὲν ἄγαν, said to have been one of the inscriptions on the tripod of the oracle at Delphi.
[1474] signs.
[1475] knowest.