Perdidi diem --- I was about to say that the right citation is "Diem perdidi" and it was made classic by the historian Suetonius in his work "De vita XII Caesarum". He attributed that sentence to Emperor Titus, who meant that he lost a day if he had not done anything good. Looking twice at the expression I understand that I should have looked not only the the Latin version but also to the English one to understand. It is a clever play of words, indeed. "Nunc fortunatus sum", too!

Source author: Petru Dumitriu PetruD@diplomacy.edu