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Old age - Early works to 1800

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    Tullius de senectute : bothe in latyn and Englysshe tonge translated by Robert Whitinton poete Laureate. Cum priuilegio regali.

    Cicero, Marcus Tullius | Date: [1535?]
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    How to grow old : ancient wisdom for the second half of life / Marcus Tullius Cicero ; translated and with an introduction by Philip Freeman.

    Cicero, Marcus Tullius | Date: [2016]
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    A tvvo-fold treatise : the one decyphering the worth of speculation, and of a retired life. The other containing a discoverie of youth and old age.

    | Date: 1612
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    The worthye booke of old age othervvyse entituled the elder Cato : contayning a learned defence and praise of age, and aged men: writen in latine by that father of eloquence Marcus Tullius Cicero, and now englished. VVherunto is annexed a recitall of diuerse men that liued long. With a declaracion of sundrye soortes of yeares, and the diuersitie betwene the yeres in the old time, and our yeares nowe adayes. Anno. 1569.

    Cicero, Marcus Tullius | Date: [1569]
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    Vindiciæ senectutis, or, A plea for old-age : which is senis cujusdam Cygnea cantio. And the severall points on parts of it, are laid downe at the end of the follovving introduction. By T.S. D.D.

    Sheafe, Thomas, approximately 1559-1639 | Date: MDCXXXIX. [1639]
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