age Copy link Outline I. Time of life1. aetas, ātis, f.2. aevum (poet.)II. A particular period; an epoch1. aetas2. aevum3. sēcŭlum4. tempus, ŏris, n.III. All the human beings existing at any one time1. aetas2. sēcŭlumIV. A century or any long, indefinite period1. sēcŭlum2. aetas • age: I. Time of life: 1. aetas, ātis, f.: the a. of men, aet. hominum, Cic.: the a. of trees, aet. arborum, Plin.: we are now of such an a. that we ought to endure all things courageously, id aetatis jam sumus ut omnia fortiter ferre debeamus, Cic.: Fimbria was more advanced in a., Fimbria longius aetate provectus fuit, Cic.: a child in a., aetate puer, Cic. Of definite periods of life: an advanced a., aet. provecta, Cic.: advancing a., ingravescens aet., Cic.: of all (the other) a.s there is a fixed limit, but none of old a., omnium aet. certus est terminus, senectutis autem nullus, Cic.: the a. of boyhood, aet. puerilis, Cic.: the inexperience of youthful a., ineuntis aet. inscitia, Cic.: the flower of a., i. e., youth, flos aetatis, Cic.: middle a., aet. media, constans, Cic.: the legal a. for the consulship, aet. consularis, Cic. 2. aevum (poet.): human nature is weak and of short a., natura humana imbecilla atque aevi brevis est, Sall.: if any one shall ask you my a., meum si quis te percontabitur aevum, Hor.: the flower of a., flos aevi, Ov.: he would now be blooming at the same a. as you, nunc aequali tecum pubesceret aevo, Virg.--Note. Age when = old-age may be expr. by aetas or (poet.) aevum when the context explains the sense in which the words are used: as, a man worn out with disease and a., vir morbo atque aet. confectus, Sall.: worn out with a., confectus aevo, Virg.: v. years, old age. Phr.: I am in the 84th year of my a., quartum annum ago et octogesimum, Cic.: this end had Galba at the a. of 73, hunc exitum habuit Galba tribus et septuaginta annis, Tac.: a man more than 40 years of a., vir annos natus major quadraginta, Cic.: with children above the a. of 15, cum liberis majoribus quam quindecim annos natis, Liv.: P. Orbius is about my a., P. Orbius meus fere aequalis est, Cic.: under a., minor XXI annis or annorum, Dig.: above a., major XXI annis. (N.B. The Roman law differed from the English in respect of the age at which legal competency began, and hence none of its terms are exactly equivalent to our phrases, which must therefore be literally rendered): II. A particular period; an epoch: 1. aetas: the chief astronomers of that a., summi astrologi illius aet., Cic.: the heroic a.s, heroicae aet., Cic.: the golden a., aurea aet., Ov. 2. aevum: in our a., in nostro aevo, Plin. 3. sēcŭlum: I myself perhaps am involved in the error of this a., ipse fortasse in hujus s. errore versor, Cic.: lest the a. of Pyrrha should return, ne rediret s. Pyrrhae, Hor. 4. tempus, ŏris, n.: the heroic a.s, heroica t., Cic.: v. times. III. All the human beings existing at any one time: 1. aetas: what have we, a hardened a., shrunk from? quid nos dura refugimus aetas? Hor. 2. sēcŭlum: I know what are the manners of this a., novi ego hoc s., moribus quibus sient, Pl.: the insolence of this a., hujus s. insolentia, Cic.: the judgment of succeeding a.s, s. reliquorum judicium, Cic. Esp. of the spirit or morals of an age: nor is debauchery called the spirit of the a., nec corrumpere ac corrumpi seculum vocatur, Tac. IV. A century or any long, indefinite period: 1. sēcŭlum: some a.s afterwards Scipio took Carthage, aliquot seculis post Scipio Carthaginem cepit, Cic.: Hor. 2. aetas: I have lived 200 years; the present is the third a. of my existence, vixi annos bis centum; nunc tertia vivitur aetas, Ov.: v. century.