alisto

Updated: May 1, 2025

However, on other subjects I have spoken at large, and shall often speak again: this hook which I herewith send you is on Old Age. I have put the whole discourse not, as Alisto of Cos did, in the mouth of Tithonus for a mere fable would have lacked conviction but in that of Marcus Cato when he was an old man, to give my essay greater weight.

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Treatises on Friendship and Old Age