RETIREMENT Copy link • RETIREMENTAct of retiring, by the verbs. Retirement from office, abdicatio muneris. Retired place, solitudo: locus desertus; locus ab arbitris remotus (Cic.). Retired state or life, solitudo: vita solitaria; otium (freedom from business, leisure). A person living in retirement in the country, solitarius homo et in agro vitam agens: to live in retirement, vitam solitariam agere (in solitude): habere or agere aetatem procul a republica (far from political life): to spend one’s youth in retirement, juventutem procul a coetu hominum agere: to withdraw into retirement, vitam solitudini mandare; a turba in otium et solitudinem se conferre (to go into solitude): a negotiis publicis se removere; de foro decedere (to withdraw from political life).