Meaning of senex | Babel Free

Definitions

1. old man, older man (typically age 40 or older; older than a iuvenis)
   declension-3, feminine, masculine
2. old person, older person
   declension-3, feminine, masculine
3. as feminine old woman, older woman
   declension-3, feminine, masculine, uncommon

Equivalents

Examples

“[…] magno opere contemno, conlectum ex senibus desperatis, ex agresti luxuria, ex rusticis decoctoribus, ex eis qui vadimonia deserere quam illum exercitum maluerunt;”

[…] I thoroughly despise that army composed of desperate old men, of clownish profligates, and uneducated spendthrifts; of those who have preferred to desert their bail rather than that army

“et erit post haec effundam spiritum meum super omnem carnem et prophetabunt filii vestri et filiae vestrae senes vestri somnia somniabunt et iuvenes vestri visiones videbunt”

And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

“At quae fida fuit nulli, post victa senecta ducit inops tremula stamina torta manu firmaque conductis adnectit licia telis tractaque de niveo vellere ducta putat. Hanc animo gaudente vident iuvenumque catervae Conmemorant merito tot mala ferre senem, Hanc Venus exalto flentem sublimis Olympo”

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