Old age, said Solon.
The lecture was on the whole acceptable, and a credit to our culture and civilization .-- The reporter goes on to state that there will be no lecture next week, on account of the expected combat between the bear and the barbarian.

Betting (sponsio) two to one (duo ad unum) on the bear.
-- After all, the most encouraging things I find in the treatise, "De Senectute," are the stories of men who have found new occupations when growing old, or kept up their common pursuits in the extreme period of life.

Cato learned Greek when he was old, and speaks of wishing to learn the fiddle, or some such instrument, (fidibus,) after the example of Socrates.

Solon learned something new, every day, in his old age, as he gloried to proclaim.

Cyrus pointed out with pride and pleasure the trees he had planted with his own hand.