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So I will pass the night with drinking, so with song, until daylight shines its rays into my wine.

[Sic noctem patera, sic ducam carmine, donec
iniciat radios in mea uina dies!]

Propertius (50–16 BC) Roman elegiac poet [Sextus Propertius]

Elegies, Book 4, Elegy 6, l. 85ff (4.6.85–86) [tr. Kline (2001)]
    (Source)

Because of the corruption of the manuscripts of Propertius and speculating from internal references, some 19th Century scholars (e.g., Lachmann) argued for a different division of the elegies into books, thus the translations noted which instead label this as Book 5, Elegy 6.

(Source (Latin)). Other translations:

Thus wine and song shall wing the night away,
Till o'er our revel streams the dawning day.
[tr. Moore (1870), 5.6]

Thus wine and song will cheer the night, till day
Upon my revel sheds its rosy ray.
[tr. Cranstoun (1875), 5.6]

Thus will I pass the night in drinking and song, till day sheds its beams over my wine.
[tr. Gantillon (1884)]

Thus will I prolong the night with goblet and song, until day flings beams of light upon my carouse.
[tr. Phillimore (1906)]

Thus will I pass the night with drink and thus with song, till dawn shall cast its rays upon my wine.
[tr. Butler (Loeb) (1912)]

So this whole night of song and drinking is mine
till the sun's rays flash new brightness into the wine.
[tr. Carrier (1963)]

Thus I will pass the night amid the bumpers
And amid the songs till day shall cast
Its rays in my wine.
[tr. Musker (1972)]

So will I spend the night with goblet and with song, until the day sheds its rays upon my wine.
[tr. Goold (Loeb) (1990)]

So with libation, so with song I'll spend the night
Till daylight thrust its rays into my wine.
[tr. Lee (1992)]

With song and goblet I will spend the night until
the dawn adds lustre to my wine.
[tr. Holcombe (2009)]