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For example, Cyrus,1 in Xenophon, in that
discourse which he delivered when he was very
old and on his death-bed, says that he had never
felt that his old age was any less vigorous than his
youth had been. I remember that in my boyhood I
saw Lucius Metellus, who, four years after his second
consulship, became Chief Pontiff and held that
sacred office for twenty-two years, and I recall
that he enjoyed such great vigour of body to the end
of his days that he did not feel the loss of youth.
I need say nothing of myself in this connexion,
though to do so is an old man's privilege and permitted to one of my age.
1 Cyrus the Elder, Xen. Cyropaedia, viii. 7. 6. But other authorities (Herod. i. 24, Lucian, Charon, 30) say that Cyrus died in battle with the Scythians.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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