The more old age strives to be concealed, the more it will be exposed.Tertullian's words apply equally to men, who can be every bit as vain about their appearance as women.
senectus cum plus occultari studuerit, plus detegetur.
"A peculiar anthologic maze, an amusing literary chaos, a farrago of quotations, a mere olla podrida of quaintness, a pot pourri of pleasant delites, a florilegium of elegant extracts, a tangled fardel of old-world flowers of thought, a faggot of odd fancies, quips, facetiae, loosely tied" (Holbrook Jackson, Anatomy of Bibliomania) by a "laudator temporis acti," a "praiser of time past" (Horace, Ars Poetica 173).
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Saturday, September 25, 2004
Mutton Dressed as Lamb
Tertullian, De Cultu Feminarum (How Women Should Dress) 2.6.3: