Odes 3.30 is the last poem of Horace’s Book 3, and it opens with “exēgī monumentum aere perennius”: I have raised a monument more lasting than bronze. The next sentence begins “nōn omnis moriar”, the other line people search for.
Aere and sitū are ablatives of comparison, the “than” in “more lasting than bronze” and “higher than the royal structure of the pyramids”. In the second sentence, omnis is used as “entirely”, so the clause says that I shall not wholly die.
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Horace · Odes 3.30
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ExēgīI have completed and raised
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Horace · Odes 3.30
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moriarshall I die
