Tully's compendious treatise of old age ; intitled Cato Major ... / Translated ... with copious notes, by W. Massey.

  • Cicero
Date:
1753
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Credit: Tully's compendious treatise of old age ; intitled Cato Major ... / Translated ... with copious notes, by W. Massey. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    and Converfation of my Friends. For our Anceftors called that Conviviiim (i. e.) a liv- ing jhciably together; when an Entertainment was made, where Friends met together for the Improvement of their Minds, as well as for the regaling of their Bodies; which is better than the Greek Names of Compotation^ and Slippering^ as if they had that the mofl: in View, which was of the leaft Confeqiience. SECT. XIII. FO R my Part, it is for the Sake of in- ftrudlive and agreeable Converfation, that I frequent thefe banqnetting AJfemblies; and not only with my Equals (of whom now few remain) but alfo with fuch young Gen¬ tlemen as are of your Age ; and l am obliged to Old-Age^ that has given me a ftronger Relifh for Converfation, and lefs for Eating and Drinking. And allowing that thefe Things may be pleafing to fome (that I may not declare War ahfolutely againft Pleafnrey which doubt]efs Nature permits in the Mode¬ ration) Old-Age does not quite lofe the Relifh of them. But I have a great liking to thofe Societies that were eftablifhed by our An¬ ceftors ; and thofe Difcourfcs that are made, according to the ancient Form, by the Pre- fident of the Club ; thofe Clubs, as Xenophon favs
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