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OF NONIUS MARCELLUS

THE PERIPATETIC OF TIBUR

On Compendious Learning

ON THE PROPRIETY OF WORDS.

Senium weariness/dotage is annoyance and hatred; named from senectus old age, because old men are an object of hatred and annoyance to everyone. Caecilius in the Ephesione; 20

Then in old age I deem this most miserable,
To feel at that age that one is himself hateful to another.

For the ancients called a difficult old age "bad age." Plautus in the Menaechmi: "I am worn out by old age, I carry a laden body, my strength has left me; as the age is bad, the merchandise is therefore bad."

Accius in Amphitruo: "Do you prefer to be badly beaten in a bad age by all examples?"

Turpilius in Philopator: "I think it is wretched, if even that misery has added itself to a bad age." 30

Pacuvius in Periboea:
It is little that age handles you badly, if not even this