Time flies

• Time flies is from the Latin Tempus fugit.
  • Tempus fugit means ‘Time disappears’.
  • The original phrase comes from Virgil, ‘Georgics’ Book 3, line 284:
  • ‘Sed fugit interea Fugit inreparabile Tempus’, meaning ‘once Lost, Time is irretrievable’.

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