# De Senectute 21

Cicero, De Senectute, urn:cts:latinLit:phi0474.phi051.perseus-lat2. Latin.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-senectute/21

At memoria minuitur. credo, nisi eam exerceas, aut etiam si sis natura tardior. Themistocles omnium civium perceperat nomina; num igitur censetis eum, cum aetate processisset, qui Aristides esset Lysimachum salutare solitum? equidem non modo eos novi qui sunt, sed eorum patres etiam et avos, nec sepulcra legens vereor, quod aiunt, ne memoriam perdam; his enim ipsis legendis in memoriam redeo mortuorum. nec vero quemquam senem audivi oblitum, quo loco thesaurum obruisset. omnia quae curant meminerunt, vadimonia constituta, quis sibi, cui ipsi debeant.

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Cicero, De Senectute, ed. William Armistead Falconer. Text: the Perseus Digital Library, canonical-latinLit, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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