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A. 102, c; G. 291, Rem.; H. 450, 1. n. and foot-note 4. DELIRATIO: 'dotage'; a rare word, used by Cic. only here and in Div. 2, 90. ROBUSTOS: 'sturdy'; implying that the sons were grown up. TANTAM: sc. quantam habuit; only a little more emphatic than magnam would have been; see n. on 52. APPIUS: see n. on 16.
Laying therefore in my youth the foundations of so noble a structure, it is my intention, if God will assist me and prolong my life, to reserve my maturer years for composing a treatise upon so perfect, so sacred a subject: for according to the poet, "Ardua quippe fides robustos exigit annos;" "The important concerns of faith require a mind in its full vigour;"
Ut petulantia, ut libido magis est adulescentium quam senum, nec tamen omnium adulescentium, sed non proborum, sic ista senilis stultitia, quae deliratio appellari solet, senum levium est, non omnium. 37 Quattuor robustos filios, quinque filias, tantam domum, tantas clientelas Appius regebat et caecus et senex; intentum enim animum tamquam arcum habebat nec languescens succumbebat senectuti.
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