# De Senectute 29

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

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/latin/cicero/de-senectute/29

An ne illas quidem viris senectuti relinquimus, ut adulescentis doceat, instituat, ad omne offici munus instruat? quo quidem opere quid potest esse praeclarius? mihi vero et Cn. et P. Scipiones et avi tui duo L. Aemilius et P. Africanus comitatu nobilium iuvenum fortunati videbantur, nec ulli bonarum artium magistri non beati putandi, quamvis consenuerint vires atque defecerint. etsi ipsa ista defectio virium adulescentiae vitiis efficitur saepius quam senectute; libidinosa enim et intemperans adulescentia effetum corpus tradit senectuti.

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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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