""I've lost a day!"—the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown."
— Edward Young

January 1, 1970

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Line 99. Suetonius says of the Emperor Titus: "Once at supper, reflecting that he had done nothing for any that day, he broke out into that memorable and justly admired saying, ‘My friends, I have lost a day!'" Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Cæsars (translation by Alexander Thomson).