iactator
ὦ δυσπάλαιστον γῆρας, ὡς μισῶ σ' ἔχων, μισῶ δ' ὅσοι χρῄζουσιν ἐκτείνειν βίον, βρωτοῖσι καὶ ποτοῖσι καὶ μαγεύμασι παρεκτρέποντες ὀχετὸν ὥστε μὴ θανεῖν: οὓς χρῆν, ἐπειδὰν μηδὲν ὠφελῶσι γῆν, θανόντας ἔρρειν κἀκποδὼν εἶναι νέοις → Old age, resistless foe, how do I loathe your presence! Them too I loathe, whoever desire to lengthen out the span of life, seeking to turn the tide of death aside by food and drink and magic spells; those whom death should take away to leave the young their place, when they no more can benefit the world
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
jactātor: ōris, m. id.,
I one who makes an ostentatious display of himself, a boaster, braggart: rerum a se gestarum, Quint. 11, 1, 17: civilitatis, Suet. Claud. 35; Stat. Th. 6, 837; Gell. 18, 4, 1.—Poet., with inf.: ille sub hiberno somnos educere caelo Jactator, he boasts, Sil. 11, 403.
