Stat sua cuique dies

Stat sua cuique this is Latin and means “everyone has his day”. The term day stands here euphemistically for the day of death.

origin

The quote comes from Virgil's Aeneid , Book 10, 467. The youthful Pallas sends a prayer to Hercules before the unequal fight against Turnus . He, knowing full well that Pallas has no chance, suppresses a sigh and weeps. His father, Jupiter , speaks to him :

Stat sua cuique dies, breve et inreparabile tempus

omnibus est vitae; sed fam extendere factis,

hoc virtutis opus. Troiae sub moenibus altis

dead gnati cecidere deum, quin occidit una

Sarpedon, mea progenies; etiam sua turnum

fata vocant metasque dati pervenit ad aevi.

“Everyone has his or her day, short and irretrievable for all of them is their lifetime; but to expand fame through deeds is the work of bravery. So many sons of gods fell under the high walls of Troy, yes, with them Sarpedon, my own son, died; His fate also calls the rotation and he comes to the end of the life that has been given to him. "

use

Stat sua cuique this is found in obituaries and obituaries, especially among those who died young.