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|lshtext=<b>aetas</b>: ātis, f. contr. from the anteclass. [[aevitas]] from [[aevum]], q. v.; Prisc. 595 P.; cf. Welsh oet (<br /><b>I</b> gen. plur. aetatum; [[but]] freq. also aetatium, Liv. 1, 43; 9, 17; 26, 9; cf. Oud. ad Suet. Aug. 31; Vell. 2, 89; Sen. Brev. Vit. 12, 2; Gell. 14, 1).<br /><b>I</b> The [[period]] of [[life]], [[time]] of [[life]], [[life]], [[age]] (divided, acc. to Varr. ap. Censor. 14, [[into]] [[pueritia]], from [[birth]] to the 15th [[year]]; [[adulescentia]], from [[that]] [[time]] to the 30th; juventus, to the 45th; the [[age]] of the seniores, to the 60th; and, [[finally]], [[senectus]], from [[that]] [[time]] [[till]] [[death]]. Others [[make]] a [[different]] [[division]], v. Flor. 1 prooem.; Isid. Orig. 11, 2; Gell. 10, 28; 15, 20): a [[primo]] tempore aetatis, Cic. Leg. 1, 4, 13: prima [[aetas]], id. Off. 2, 13: ineuntis aetatis [[inscientia]], id. ib. 1, 34; so 2, 13: [[flos]] aetatis, the [[bloom]] of [[life]], id. Phil. 2, 2; Liv. 21; Suet. Caes. 49; so, bona [[aetas]], Cic. Sen. 14; and [[poet]]. in the <[[number]] opt="n">plur.</[[number]]>: [[ambo]] florentes aetatibus, Verg. E. 7, 4: [[quamquam]] [[aetas]] senet, [[satis]] [[habeo]] [[tamen]] virium, ut te arā arceam, Pac. ap. Prisc. 1, 10; id. ap. Non. 159, 19: [[mala]] [[aetas]], old [[age]], Plaut. Men. 5, 2, 6; and absol.: [[aetas]], [[aevitas]] = [[senectus]], old [[age]], SI MORBVS AEVITASVE VITIVM ESCIT, Fragm. of the XII. Tab. ap. Gell. 20, 1, 25: aetate ([[through]] [[age]]) non [[quis]] obtuerier, Plaut. Most. 3, 2, 154; 1, 3, 130; id. Bacch. 3, 3, 5: sed [[ipse]] morbo [[atque]] aetate [[confectus]], Sall. J. 9: graves aetate, Liv. 7, 39.—Sometimes also absol. = [[adulescentia]], [[youth]]: fui ego illā aetate et feci [[illa]] omnia, Plaut. Bacch. 4, 10, 4; id. Most. 5, 2, 27: damna, dedecora [[aetas]] ipsius pertulit, Cic. Verr. 2, 1, 12: tua [[autem]] [[aetas]] (of his [[son]]), id. Off. 2, 13: ([[mulier]]) non formā, non aetate, non opibus maritum invenerit, Tac. G. 19: [[expers]] belli [[propter]] aetatem, Suet. Aug. 8: [[aetas]] [[consularis]], the [[legal]] [[age]] for the [[consulship]], i. e. the 43d [[year]], Cic. Phil. 5, 17: id aetatis jam sumus, we [[have]] [[now]] reached [[that]] [[time]] of [[life]], id. Fam. 6, 20, 3.—<br /><b>II</b> Transf.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>A</b> In gen., the [[lifetime]] of [[man]], [[without]] [[reference]] to its [[different]] stages; [[life]], Enn. ap. Gell. 18, 2, 16: [[aetas]] [[acta]] [[honeste]] et [[splendide]], Cic. Tusc. 3, 25: gerere, id. Fam. 4, 5 al.: [[tempus]] aetatis, id. Sen. 19: aetatem consumere in [[studio]] [[aliquo]], id. Off. 1, 1: conterere in litibus, id. Leg. 1, 20: degere omnem in tranquillitate, id. Fin. 2, 35; cf. id. Rosc. Am. 53 al.—In Ov. M. 12, 188, [[aetas]] = [[centum]] annos.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>B</b> A [[space]] of [[time]], an [[age]], [[generation]], [[time]]: heroicae aetates, Cic. Tusc. 5, 3, 7: haec [[aetas]], id. ib. 1, 3, 5; id. Rep. 1, 1: [[alia]], id. Lael. 27, 101 Beier: nostrā aetate, in [[our]] times, Quint. 1, 4, 20: cum primis aetatis suae comparabatur, Nep. Iphicr. 1; Vell. 1, 16: incuriosa suorum [[aetas]], Tac. Agr. 1: omnia fert [[aetas]], [[time]], Verg. E. 9, 51; so Hor. C. 4, 9, 10: crastina [[aetas]], the [[morrow]], Stat. Th. 3, 562. —Of the [[four]] ages of the [[world]] (the [[golden]] [[age]], [[silver]] [[age]], etc.), Ov. M. 1, 89 sq.; v. [[aureus]], [[argenteus]], etc.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>C</b> Abstr. pro concreto, the [[time]] or [[period]] of [[life]], for the [[man]] [[himself]], the [[age]], for the men [[living]] in it ([[mostly]] [[poet]]., and in [[prose]] [[after]] the Aug. per.; cf. [[saeculum]]): sibi [[inimicus]] [[magis]] [[quam]] aetati tuae, i. e. [[tibi]], Plaut. Men. 4, 3, 1: vae aetati tuae, id. Capt. 4, 2, 105: [[quid]] nos dura refugimus Aetas? Hor. C. 1, 35, 34: impia, id. Epod. 16, 9: veniens, Ov. F. 6, 639: [[omnis]] [[aetas]] currere [[obviam]], Liv. 27, 51: [[omnis]] [[sexus]], [[omnis]] [[aetas]], Tac. A. 13, 16: innoxiam liberorum aetatem miserarentur, i. e. innocentes liberos, id. H. 3, 68: sexum, aetatem, ordinem omnem, Suet. Calig. 4.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>D</b> Also of things [[without]] [[life]], e. g. of [[wine]], its [[age]]: bibite Falernum hoc: annorum [[quadraginta]] est. Bene, inquit, aetatem fert, it keeps [[well]], Cic. ap. Macr. S. 2, 2, 3; Plin. 23, 1, 20, § 33; 15, 2, 3, § 7.—So of buildings: aetates aedificiorum, Dig. 30, 58.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>E</b> Aetatem, a dverb. ([[ante]]-[[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = [[semper]], [[perpetuo]], [[through]] the [[whole]] of [[life]], [[during]] [[lifetime]], [[continually]]: ut aetatem [[ambo]] nobis sint obnoxii, Plaut. As. 2, 2, 18: at tu aegrota, si [[lubet]], per me aetatem [[quidem]], id. Curc. 4, 3, 22: Quid, [[malum]], me aetatem censes velle id adsimularier, Ter. Heaut. 4, 3, 38.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; = diu, longo tempore, an [[age]], a [[long]] [[time]], a [[long]] [[while]]: an abiit jam a milite? Jamdudum aetatem, Ter. Eun. 4, 5, 8: [[quod]] solis [[vapor]] aetatem non posse videtur efficere, [[what]] the [[heat]] of the [[sun]] cannot [[perhaps]] [[effect]] for years, Lucr. 6, 236.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>F</b> In aetate, adverb. ([[ante]]-[[class]].).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>1</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At times, [[sometimes]], [[now]] and [[then]], Plaut. Trin. 1, 1, 2.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>2</b>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; At [[any]] [[time]], [[always]], [[ever]], Plaut. Trin. 2, 4, 61.