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  • Memphim veniens me vicit, et continentiam expugnavit, quam ad senectutem usque servarum, oculis corporis, &c. 4903.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • One travels, another builds; one for this, another for that business, and old folks are as far out as the rest; O dementem senectutem, Tully exclaims.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • 'Tis the only sweet thing (which he adviseth) so to moderate ourselves, that we may have senectutem in juventute, et in juventute senectutem, be youthful in our old age, staid in our youth, discreet and temperate in both.

    Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

  • (Oculi enim Israel graves erant propter senectutem, nec poterat videre) et accedere fecit eos ad illum, et osculatus est eos, et amplexatus est eos.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Et peperit Sarah uxor domini mei filium domino meo post senectutem suam, et dedit ei omnia quae sunt ei.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 2 1509-1564 1996

  • Quin ergo quod juvat, quod carum aestimant, id semper faciant; [463] ament, potent, ubi adolescentiam habuere, ibi senectutem agant, in conviviis, dediti ventri et turpissimae parti corporis; sudorem, pulverem et alia talia relinquant nobis, quibus illa epulis jucundiora sunt.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • Ennius -- ita ferebat duo quae maxima putantur onera, paupertatem et senectutem, ut eis paene delectari videretur. '

    The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

  • Sicut tuom vis unicum gnatum tuae superesse vitae sospitem et superstitem, ita ted obtestor per senectutem tuam perque illam, quam tu metuis, uxorem tuam, si quid med erga hodie falsum dixeris, 20 ut tibi superstes uxor aetatem siet atque illa viva vivos ut pestem oppetas.

    Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919

  • The school-book of the European world, the _Odes_ have been no less for nineteen centuries the companions of mature years and the delight of age -- _adolescentiam agunt, senectutem oblectant, _ may be said of them with as much truth as ever now.

    Latin Literature 1902

  • You recall, perhaps, that eloquent passage in his noble defence of the poet Archias, wherein Cicero (not Kikero) refers to his own pursuit of literary studies: "Hæc studia adolescentiam alunt, senectutem oblectant; secundas res ornant, adversis perfugium ac solatium præbent; delectant domi, non impediunt foris; pernoctant nobiscum, peregrinantur, rusticantur!"

    The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac 1896

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