Tempus fugit = Time flies
tempus, oris, n. = time
fugere = to run away from, to escape (fugit = 3rd person
singular present = he, she , it flies, flees. escapes)
"Tempus fugit" is a latin expression meaning "Time flees", more commonly translated as "Time flies".
It is frequently used as an inscription on clocks, very much also on sundials.
The expression was first recorded in the poem "Georgics" written by the roman poet Virgil:
" Sed fugit interea fugit irreparabile tempus, singula dum capti circumvectamur amore",
which means
"But meanwhile it flees: time flees irretrievably, while we wander around, prisoners of our love of detail."
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