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Luxuria cum omni aetati turpis, tum senectuti foedissima.
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But if I am getting old, although perhaps prematurely, I must be casting about for the _subsidia senectuti_.
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It is odd that Montaigne should have hit upon the wine also as among the _subsidia senectuti_; although the sage Michael complains, as you will remember, that old men do not relish their wine, or at least the first glass, because "the palate is furred with phlegms."
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But what if I am seventy-two; I remember Sulpitius says of Saint Martin (now that's above your reading), Est animus victor annorum et senectuti cedere nescius.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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Capitol in appropriate language: di probos mores docili iuventae, di, senectuti placidae quietem,
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Tacitus had said at the commencement of his History, that he had reserved as the employment of his old age, should his life be long enough, the reigns of Nerva and Trajan: -- "quod si vita suppeditet, principatum Divi Nervae et imperium Trajani ... senectuti seposui"
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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But -- and particular attention is called to this -- when the alliteration is found at the end of a sentence, or (where there is a pause) in the middle of a sentence, he prefers words of the same length, but different quantities, as, at the beginning of the History; -- _senectuti seposui_ (I. l);
Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852
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But what if I am seventy-two; I remember Sulpitius says of Saint Martin (now that's above your reading), _Est animus victor annorum et senectuti cedere nescius_.
Life of Johnson, Volume 3 1776-1780 James Boswell 1767
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1, 'Quod si vita suppeditet, principatum divi Nervae et imperium Traiani ... senectuti seposui.'
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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'Ennius "equi fortis et victoris senectuti comparat suam"' (Cic.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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