“Vino pretioso et unguentis nos impleamus, et non prætereat nos flos temporis.”
“Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and ointments: and let no flower of the spring pass by us:”
“Let us fill ourselves with costly wine and perfumes; And let no flower of spring pass us by:”
Time. Alexandrian Septuagint, “of spring.” (Haydock) — Youth is the spring of life. The voluptuous conclude, from the transitory nature of things, that we should make use of them. Would it not be more rational to despise them? (Calmet)