Does anyone know what the phrase that begins as follows means?

"Si meliora dies, ut vina, poemata reddit, scire velim,chartis pretium quotus arroget annus"

I see it often as a place-filler in printers' documents and templates but I don't know whether it means anything (is it Latin?) or why this particular phrase is used so often. A Google search brings up 1000s of pages containing these words.... :confused:

Yes, it's Latin. I think it's from a poem either by Catullus or Martial, but I'm not positive.

Something like "If poems, like wine, a day makes better, I would like to know, how much a year adds to the price of charts.". Charts like papyruses, parchment, some such. Price is technically still price, but more like value in our current terms. I probably translated it ages ago in school, but I can't recall.

[ September 09, 2004, 04:01: Message edited by: chevalier ]

Eram quod es, eris quod sum

On a chalk etching I made for art history class a couple years back.

But why is it used so much in printer's templates? Why are there so many websites using that poem?

DHB: I was what you are, you will be what I am.