O tempora o mores!
（重定向自O tempora! O mores!）
![Cicero throws up his brief like a Gentleman, by John Leech, from: The Comic History of Rome by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.](/Images/godic/202501/31/Comic_History_of_Rome_p_296_Cicero_throws_up_his_Brief_like_a_Gentleman2540.jpg")
"O tempora o mores" is a sentence by Cicero in the fourth book of his second oration against Verres (chapter 25) and First Oration against Catiline. It translates as Oh the times! Oh the customs! (Oh what times! Oh what customs! or alternatively, Alas the times, and the manners ) It is often printed as O tempora! O mores!, with the interposition of exclamation marks (not present in Classical Latin).