"Edepol, senectus, si nil quicquam aliud viti Adportes tecum, cum advenis, unum id sat est, Quod diu vivendo multa quae non volt videt."
— Caecilius Statius

January 1, 1970

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Poets from Rome
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Ah! By heaven, Old Age, if there's no other mischief which you bring with you when you come—well—this one's quite enough—that a man by living long sees many things he doesn't want. — Plocium, fragment 9; as quoted by Cicero, De Senectute, 8, 25 — Cp. Nonius, 247, 4 (Caecilius Plocio); with edepol cp. egad