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Lael. 33 quod perduxissent. ESSET: cf. n. on 21. AETATE: here = the vigorous period of life; cf. bona aetas in 48. CURSUS HONORUM: 'official career'. HUIUS: ille and hic are not often found in the same sentence referring to the same person. Eius would have been more regular here. MEDIA: cf. n. on 33 constantis aetatis.
At this moment the door opened, and a young gentleman came slowly in. He was a very nice-looking young man, tall and well shaped, with a fair skin and jolly blue eyes in short, a typical young Englishman of the better sort, aetate suo twenty-four.
FABULAM AETATIS: cf. 5, 70, 85. The comparison of life to a play, and mankind to the players, is common in all literature; e.g. Gay's epitaph, 'Life's a jest, etc.. CORRUISSE: i.e. through fatigue; cf. defetigationem in 85. AT: see n. on 21. MORUM: cf. 7 in moribus est culpa, non in aetate. EA VITIA: i.e. ea alia vitia. HABENT etc.: cf. Thucyd. 3, 44 εχοντες τι συγγνωμης.
"Julia Vernon. aetate 22." He dropped the velvet with a groan, and was only saved from falling by the timely aid of the old butler, whose face was as sorrowful as his own. But there was a duty yet to be performed, and Delme followed the corpse. The first mourning coach was just drawn up. An intended occupant had already his foot on the step. "This place is mine!" said Sir Henry in a hollow voice.
MAIOR ATQUE LONGIOR: 'very intense and protracted'. Superlatives might have been expected, in view of quanta percipi posset maxima above. Longus in the sense of 'long-continued' is rare in Ciceronian Latin, excepting when, as in 66 longa aetate, it is joined with a word distinctly referring to time. For the general drift of the passage cf. Cic. ANIMI LUMEN: a common metaphor; e.g. Cic.
PROCESSERIT: probably the subject is sapiens, in which case aetate must also be supplied from aetatis; the subject may however be aetas. OSTENDIT: 'gives promise of'; cf. With the whole passage cf. pro Cael. 76. UT ... DIXI: in 9, 60, 62. SECUNDUM NATURAM: = κατα φυσιν a Stoic phrase; cf. n. on 5 naturam optimam ducem. SENIBUS: dative of reference; emori stands as subject to an implied est.
Illud vero idem Caecilius vitiosius: tum equidem in senecta hoc deputo miserrimum, sentire ea aetate eumpse esse odiosum alteri. 26 Iucundum potius quam odiosum!
Denique isto bono utare, dum adsit, cum absit, ne requiras: nisi forte adulescentes pueritiam, paulum aetate progressi adulescentiam debent requirere.
So in the laws of the Lombards, the punishment of adulteresses was decalvari et fustigari. Omnem vicum, the whole village, cf. Germania omnis, Sec. 1. Aetate==juventa. Non invenerit. She would not find, could not expect to find. This use of the perf. subj., for a softened fut., occurs in negative sentences oftener than in positive ones. Cf.
Inde eo tempore moribundi erant plurimi, nonnulli mortui, paucique ex iis, qui frequenter coibant, ex omni aetate et sexu hujusce pestis formis omnino expertes erant. Apud indigenas morbus hic eodem fere modo quo apud Europaeos sese ostendere videtur variis tamen ex causis etiam magis odiosum, eo praesertim quod pustulae rotundae, magnitudinem fere uncialem habentes, simul in cute exsurgunt.
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