Teodoro Gaza e il De senectute di Cicerone, «GIF» 20, , pp. Giovanni Salanitro. Uploaded by. Giovanni Salanitro. Download with Google. This webpage reproduces an English translation of the. Cato Maior De Senectute by. Cicero published in the Loeb Classical Library, The de Senectute is a practical, no‑nonsense little book that systematically tackles the question of our attitudes towards aging; and near the end.
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But nevertheless all these faults are much ameliorated by good habits and by education, as may be seen in real life, and particularly on the stage in the case of the two brothers in the play df that name. Nullam capitaliorem pestem quam voluptatem corporis hominibus dicebat a natura datam, cuius voluptatis avidae libidines temere et ecfrenate ad potiendum incitarentur.
However, this other sentiment from the same Caecilius is worse: Therefore few arrive ficerone old age, and, but for this, life would be lived in better and wiser fashion. Through swarms of green, declaiming, silly lads. Please note that you will be liable for damages including costs and attorneys’ fees if you materially misrepresent that the material is infringing your copyright.
He maintained not mere authority, but absolute command over his household; his slaves feared him, his children revered him, all loved him, and the customs and discipline of his forefathers flourished beneath his roof.
Though quite old he waged war like a young man, and by his patient endurance checked the boyish impetuosity of Hannibal. For what utterance can be more pitiable than that of Milo of Crotona?
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Quid est autem tam secundum naturam quam senibus emori? Iam omnis conglutinatio recens aegre, inveterata facile divellitur.
Plato is said to have died at a marriage-feast Diog. Cyrus the Younger, a Persian prince, eminent for his intelligence and dde glory senectuge his rule, was visited at Sardis by Lysander the Spartan, a man of the highest virtue, who brought presents from the allies. Nec vero segetibus solum et pratis et vineis et arbustis res rusticae laetae sunt, sed hortis etiam et pomariis, tum pecudum pastu, apium examinibus, florum omnium varietate.
Licini Ciecrone et pontifici et civilis iuris studio loquar aut de huius P. Vidi etiam senem Livium; qui, cum sex aniis ante quam ego natus sum fabulam docuisset Centone Tuditanoque consulibus, usque ad adulescentiam meam processit aetate.
Cuius quidem ego villam contemplans abest enim non longe a me admirari satis non possum vel hominis ipsius continentiam vel temporum disciplinam. Itaque nemo adhuc convenire me voluit, cui fuerim occupatus.
Cicero on Old Age
Sed mihi, cum de senectute vellem aliquid scribere, tu occurrebas dignus eo munere, quo uterque nostrum communiter uteretur. Then too, there was Marcus Cethegus, whom Ennius justly styled “the marrow of eloquence.
Septimus mihi liber Originum est in manibus; omnia senecfute monumenta colligo; causarum inlustrium quascumque defendi nunc cum maxime conficio orationes; ius augurium, pontificium, civile tracto; multum etiam Graecis litteris utor, Pythagoreorumque more exercendae memoriae gratia, quid quoque die dixerim, audierim, egerim, commemoro vesperi.
How often the morning sun has surprised him working on some chart which he had begun at night! For example, there is a story that when an old man entered the theatre at Athens during the dramatic performances, not one of his countrymen in that vast crowd offered him a place; but when he came to the special seats occupied by the Lacedaemonians and assigned to them because they were ambassadors, all of them arose, it is said, and invited him to sit down.
Numquam igitur satis digne laudari philosophia poterit, cui qui pareat, omne tempus aetatis sine molestia possit degere. Crassus, a quibus iura civibus praescribebantur, quorum usque ad extremum spiritum est provecta prudentia. Da enim summum tempus, exspectemus Tartessiorum regis aetatem fuit senevtute, ut scriptum video, Arganthonius quidam Gadibus, qui octoginta regnavit annos, centum viginti vixit –sed mihi ne diuturnum quidem quicquam videtur in quo est aliquid extremum.
Faciam, ut potero, Laeli. The fact that old age removes pleasures, for Cato represents a praeclarum munus aetatis since he is free from the juvenile breathlessness caused by voluptatis avidae libidines Cato 39dangerous for himself and his native land.
Nihil ergo agebat Q. Annos septuaginta natus tot enim vixit Ennius ita ferebat duo, quae maxima putantur onera, paupertatem et senectutem, ut eis paene delectari cicwrone.
He does not think that death, which is followed by eternal life, should be a senecctute of grief. Therefore, since death threatens every hour, how can he who fears it have any steadfastness of soul?
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Cicero gives the date here as in the second consulship of Q. Ita enim senectus honesta est, si se ipsa defendit, si ius suum retinet, si nemini emancipata est, si usque ad ultimum spiritum dominatur in suos.
Although this interest of theirs is less remarkable in the case of annual crops, — for no one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year — yet these same men labour at things which they know will not profit them in the least.
Senectus autem aetatis est peractio tamquam fabulae, cuius defatigationem fugere debemus, praesertim adiuncta satietate. Cato at last refutes the fear of death Cato arguing that it, common to every age, is natural in old age, while it is a violent event in youth Cato Quid de utilitate loquar stercorandi?
Omnia autem quae secundum naturam fiunt sunt habenda in bonis. In the idealization of the image of Cato the enthusiast for the values of humanitas Cicero represents features of his own personality. Qua quid potest esse cum fructu laetius, tum aspectu pulchrius?
Cum enim id advenit, tum illud, quod praeteriit, effluxit; tantum remanet, quod virtute et recte factis consecutus sis; horae quidem cedunt et dies et menses et anni, nec praeteritum tempus umquam revertitur, nec quid sequatur sciri potest; quod cuique temporis ad vivendum datur, eo debet esse contentus.
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Utrum igitur has corporis an Pythagorae tibi malis vires ingeni dari? Bene enim maiores accubitionem epularem amicorum, quia vitae coniunctionem haberet, convivium nominaverunt, melius quam Graeci, qui hoc idem tum compotationem, tum concenationem vocant, ut, quod in eo genere minimum est, id maxime probare videantur.
Hic Tito fratre suo censore, qui proximus ante me fuerat, elapsus est; mihi vero et Flacco neutiquam probari potuit tam flagitiosa et tam perdita libido, quae cum probro privato coniungeret imperi dedecus.