old age Copy link Outline 1. sĕnectus, tūtis, f.; for which, less freq. (not in Cic.), sĕnecta, ae (gen. term)2. sĕnium (the decline and decay of life; age as a period of infirmity)3. aetas provecta, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, fin.; aet. decrepita (extreme), ib.; ultima aet., Suet. Gr. 3, extr.; exacta aet., ib. 17 (decessit aetatis exactae) • old age: 1. sĕnectus, tūtis, f.; for which, less freq. (not in Cic.), sĕnecta, ae (gen. term): to attain to o. age, s. adipisci, Cic. Sen. 2, 4: a quiet, pleasant o. age, mollis et jucunda s., ib. 1, 2: o. age is burdensome, disagreeable, s. est gravis, odiosa, ib. 2, 4: to banish the annoyances of o. age, senectutis molestias abstergere, ib. 1, 2: the form senecta occurs, Ter. Ad. 5, 8, 31: Caecil. in Cic. Sen. 8, etc. 2. sĕnium (the decline and decay of life; age as a period of infirmity): not to be liable to disease or o. age, omni morbo seniove carere, Cic. Tim. 5, extr.: the o. age of Galba and (contrasted with it) the prime of Otho, s. Galbae et juventa Othonis, Tac. H. 1, 22: limbs bowed by o. age, curvata senio membra, id. A. 1, 34. 3. aetas provecta, Cic. Tusc. 1, 39, fin.; aet. decrepita (extreme), ib.; ultima aet., Suet. Gr. 3, extr.; exacta aet., ib. 17 (decessit aetatis exactae): v. age.