Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis

16th century german Caspar Huberinus, not Ovid, as it’s frequently attributed to, but I do believe that it fits Ovid’s themes.

From Fasti, VI, lines 771-772:

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis,

et fugiunt freno non remorante dies.

More colloquially:

The times slip away, and we grow old with the silent years,

and the days flee unchecked by a rein.

Hubernius rendered it as:

Tempora labuntur, tacitisque senescimus annis;

Tempora mutantur, nosque mutamur in illis.

or,

Times are slipping away, and we get older by (through, during, with, because of) the silent years"

Although a more literal reading of the 2nd line would be closer to:

“Times are changing, and we are changed with them”

Yes, it’s that time of year again. Tempus fugit.

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