It is an evolutionary cultural thing that Horace's adage 'Carpe diem' became world famous, while Seneca's pronouncement 'Omnia tempus edax depascitur, omnia carpit', hasn't made it beyond the Latin textbooks and classroom.
Voracious time devours everything, time seizes everything, writes Seneca the Younger in Epistle 107. Why on earth would we wish to re…