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Hopwood's pieces, indeed, have already been transported to foreign climes and there seems every reason for belief that Mr. Moeller's comedy will meet a similarly happy fate. November 29, 1917. De Senectute Cantorum "All'et
But in verse the use of number is more obvious; though some particular species of it, without the assistance of music, have the air of harmonious prose, and especially the lyric poetry, and that even the best of the kind, which, if divested of the aid of music, would be almost as plain and naked as common language. "Quemnam te esse dicam? qui in tarda senectute;
Doubtless there remained a subtle aroma from his juvenile contact with the "De Senectute" and the fourth book of the "AEneid," but it had ceased to be distinctly recognizable as classical, and was only perceived in the higher finish and force of his auctioneering style.
It is supposed to have consisted at least of two books, of which we have but the proem of the first, and a small portion of the second. In his beautiful compositions, De Senectute and De Amicitiâ, Cato the censor and Lælius are respectively introduced, delivering their sentiments on those subjects.
He drew a copy of Kant from his blouse, but in his confusion several other volumes dropped from his bosom on the ground. The Baronet picked them up. "Ah!" said the Philosopher, "what's this? Cicero's De Senectute, at your age, too? Martial's Epigrams, Caesar's Commentaries. What! a classical scholar?" "E pluribus Unum. Nux vomica. Nil desperandum. Nihil fit!" said the Boy, enthusiastically.
SENIO: differs from senectute in implying not merely old age, but the weakness which usually accompanies it. CONFECTUS: for the disregard of the final s in scanning cf. n. on 1, l. 6. EQUI VICTORIS: for the almost adjectival use of the substantive victor, cf. Verg.
Jacobus of Breda, who began printing at Deventer in 1486, produced Virgil's Eclogues, Cicero's De Senectute and De Officiis, Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae and De disciplina scholarium, Aesop, a poem by Baptista Mantuanus, the 'Christian Virgil', Alan of Lille's Parabolae, Alexander, two grammatical treatises by Synthius and the Epistola mythologica of Bartholomew of Cologne.
As for the muscular powers, they pass their maximum long before the time when the true decline of life begins, if we may judge by the experience of the ring. So far without Tully. But in the mean time I have been reading the treatise, "De Senectute." It is not long, but a leisurely performance.
The boy answering that he did, Lucius commanded the executioner to cut off his neck; and this several historians mention; and Cicero, indeed, in his dialogue de Senectute, introduces Cato relating it himself.
He mentions one as written, and then another; but at last this latter appears before the former. They were all composed in the same year, the year before his death the most active year of his life, as far as his written works are concerned and I shall here treat De Senectute first, then De Amicitia, and the De Officiis last, believing them to have been published in that order.
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