ON THE PROPRIETY OF SERMONS. I.

Our most learned Maro Virgil calls the first part of the day, as if it were its adolescent age, "better," in the ninth book:

"Now indeed, since the better part of the day has been spent."

Senium senium a sense of old age, weariness, or moroseness itself is placed thus. Titinius in Veliterna:

"Because plagues, senia morose states, and quarrels have emigrated out of doors in these days!"

Novius in Gallinaria:

"O workers, collector, singer, runner, a deadly senium morose weariness!"

Accius in Epinausimache:

"The death of a friend compels it, which is by far a most bitter senium morose sorrow."

Pomponius in Praecone posteriore:

Lucilius, Satires, book XV:

"In the number of whom now first Trebellius is many,
Lucius; for he fetches a fever, senium morose lethargy, vomiting, pus."

Turpilius in Demiurgo:

"Because indeed these are, by hatred and senium morose weariness for me... weddings."