credebant

Updated: June 26, 2025

APPETI: 'to be courted'; decedi: 'to take precedence', literally 'that there should be a yielding of the way'. ASSURGI: 'the honor shown by rising'. Cf. Iuv. 13, 54 credebant grande nefas et morte piandum si iuvenis vetulo non assurrexerat, where see Mayor's note.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Cato Maior de Senectute with Introduction and Notes