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Senes plerunque delirasse in senecta, that old men familiarly dote, ob atram bilem, for black choler, which is then superabundant in them: and Rhasis, that Arabian physician, in his Cont. lib.
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Apollonius filius tuus in flore decessit, ante nos ad aeternitatem digressus, tanquam e convivio abiens, priusquam in errorem aliquem e temulentia incideret, quales in longa senecta accidere solent.
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O insane, finem quem rebus tuis non inveneras in juventa, in senecta impositurum?
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= Similar phrases at _AA_ II 670 'iam ueniet _tacito_ curua senecta pede', _Fast_ VI 771 '_tacitis_ ... senescimus annis', _Tr_
The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid
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Quem nulla ambitio, nulla umquam largitio, nullus timor, vis nulla, nulla auctoritas movere potuit in iuventa de statu: ecce in senecta ut facile labefecit loco viri excellentis mente clemente edita summissa placide blandiloquens oratio!
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Video hercle ego te me arbitrari, Euclio, hominem idoneum, quem senecta aetate ludos facias, haud merito meo.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Attici noctem celebrare mystae: 10 tanta per campos agitur silentis turba; pars tarda graditur senecta, tristis et longa satiata uita; pars adhuc currit melioris aeui: uirgines nondum thalamis iugatae15 et comis nondum positis ephebi matris et nomen modo doctus infans. his datum solis, minus ut timerent, igne praelato releuare noctem; ceteri uadunt per opaca tristes.
The Last Pilgrimage 1912
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Tydidenque ferum terraeque marisque triumphis60 naturae uictorem Ithacum Pyliumque senecta insignem triplici, Danaumque ad Pergama reges
The Milky Way 1912
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* Cum staret pater ad me deiciendam jussus est ab Hilariano (the judge) proici, et virga percussus est. et doluit mihi casus patri mei, quasi ego fuissem percussa: sic dolui pro senecta eius misera: [1593] 1
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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Demum Meritis juxta atque annis plenus, Viridi senecta, sensibusque integris,
Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. I. 1634-1716 1823
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