Compendium of Learning (Compendiosa Doctrina), Vol. I

For the ancients called a bad age "old age." Plautus in the Menaechmi:

". . . . . . . I am worn out,
By old age, I carry a heavy body, my strength
Has left me. As a bad age is a curse, it is evil work."

Accius in the Amphitryon:

"In a bad age do you wish to be badly maltreated by every example?"

Turpilius in the Philopator:

"I think it miserable, if even that of bad age has added evil."

Pacuvius in the Periboea:

"Is it too little that age treats you badly, unless also, hey, to a bad
age you add torment by silence?"

Afranius in the Vopiscus:

"If men could be taken by seductions,
All old women would have lovers now.
Age and a tender body is a yielding to desires;
These are the poisons of beautiful women.
A bad age finds no seductions."

We also call a good age youth or young adulthood. M. Tullius Cicero in the De Senectute: "But if a good age enjoys those very pleasures more willingly, first it enjoys small things." — For prudent...

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