Reminds me of Cicero - On Old Age > For when Caecilius speaks of ” the old fools of the comic stage,” he has in mind old men characterized by credulity, forget

Reminds me of Cicero - On Old Age > For when Caecilius speaks of ” the old fools of the comic stage,” he has in mind old men characterized by credulity, forgetfulness, and carelessness, which are faults, not of old age generally, but only of an old age that is drowsy, slothful, and inert. > Yet his literary culture must have been of a high order. He learned Greek in his old age, after despising the language and its writers during the whole of his earlier life. He was a friend and patron of the poet Ennius, and brought him to Rome, though manifestly without any generous provision for his subsistence; for Ennius led in Rome as poor and straitened a life as he could have left in Sardinia, where Cato found him. https://www.butwhatfor.com/on-old-age-with-cicero/ https://www.butwhatfor.com/on-old-age-with-cicero/