My strength of body is decayed, my sight and hearing dulled, memory fails me, and the vigour of my mind is impaired.
vires corporis adfectae, sensus oculorum atque aurium hebetes, memoria labat, vigor animi obtunsus.
"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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Wednesday, September 04, 2024
An Elderly Candidate Stands Down
Livy 5.18.4 (P. Licinius Calvus speaking; tr. B.O. Foster):