“Carpe Diem” Doesn’t Mean “Seize the Day”

In some fairly important ways — it means just the opposite.

7 Drawings of Birds, Flowers, and Insects (British Museum)

Surely the only way the Roman poet Horace managed to bang out four books of odes, two books of satires, and a treatise about poetry in his lifetime was with a #RiseAndGrind mentality. But shockingly, the Romans didn’t know about “Hustle Culture,” their top poets never even mentioned the idea of…