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|lshtext=<b>sĕnex</b>: sĕnis (nom. and acc. of the<br /><b>I</b> neutr. plur. in the [[posit]]. and of the neutr. [[sing]]. in the comp. do not [[occur]]; orig. gen. sĕnicis, Plaut. Fragm. ap. Prisc. p. 724 P.), adj. Sanscr. sana-s, old; Gr. [[ἕνος]], ἕνη,> old; cf.: [[senium]], [[senesco]], [[senatus]], [[senilis]], [[senectus]], [[Seneca]] (comp. [[senior]]), old, [[aged]], advanced in years; and subst., an [[aged]] [[person]], an old [[man]], old [[woman]] (from the [[latter]] [[half]] of the [[fortieth]] [[year]] [[onward]];<br /> v. [[infra]] the passages from Gell. 10, 28, 1, and from Liv. 30, 30; cf.: [[annosus]], [[longaevus]], [[vetulus]]).<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>a</b> Adj.: ([[paterfamilias]]) vendat boves vetulos, [[plostrum]] [[vetus]], ferramenta vetera, servum senem, etc., [[Cato]], R. R. 2, 7: hic est [[vetus]], [[vietus]], [[veternosus]] [[senex]], Ter. Eun. 4, 4, 21: nam [[vere]] [[pusus]] tu, tua [[amica]] [[senex]], Papin. ap. Varr. L. L. 7, § 28 Müll.: turpe [[senex]] [[miles]], turpe [[senilis]] [[amor]], Ov. Am. 1, 9, 4: cervi, id. A. A. 3, 78: latrans, Phaedr. 5, 10, 7: porci, Juv. 6, 159: cygni, Mart. 5, 37, 1: mulli, id. 10, 30, 24: [[Bacchus]] (i. e. [[vinum]]), id. 13, 23; cf. of the [[same]], auctumni, id. 3, 58, 7: Damascena ([[pruna]]), id. 5, 18, 3 et saep.: [[admodum]] [[senex]], Cic. Sen. 4, 10: [[nemo]] est tam [[senex]] qui se annum non putet posse vivere, id. ib. 7, 24: [[nomen]] Nostra tuum senibus loqueretur [[pagina]] seclis, in [[later]] ages, Verg. Cir. 40.—Comp.: grandior seniorque, Lucr. 3, 955: [[Cato]], quo erat [[nemo]] [[fere]] [[senior]] temporibus illis, Cic. Lael. 1, 5: quae vis [[senior]] est [[quam]], etc., id. Leg. 2, 4, 9: corpora seniora, Cels. 5, 28, 4: anni, Ov. M. 15, 470: [[dens]], Mart. 9, 58, 11: [[cadus]], id. 9, 94, 2.—Rarely [[with]] aetate: [[Sophocles]], aetate jam [[senior]], Val. Max. 4, 3, 2 ext.: nobis adulescentibus seniores in agendo facti praecipere solebant, ne, etc., Quint. 5, 6, 6: [[senior]] ut ita dicam, [[quam]] [[illa]] [[aetas]] ferebat, [[oratio]], [[more]] [[mature]], Cic. Brut. 43, 160.—<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>b</b> Subst.: ut tum ad senem [[senex]] de senectute, sic, etc., Cic. Lael. 1, 5: quos ait Caccilius comicos stul tos senes, etc. ... ut [[petulantia]] [[magis]] est adulescentium [[quam]] senum ... sic ista [[senilis]] [[stultitia]] senum levium est ... [[Appius]] et [[caecus]] et [[senex]], etc. ... senem, in quo est adulescentis aliquid, [[probo]], etc., id. Sen. 11, 36 sq.: senem in patriam revertentem, [[unde]] [[puer]] [[profectus]] [[sum]] (the words of [[Hannibal]], [[who]] [[was]] not [[yet]] [[fifty]] years of [[age]]), Liv. 30, 30: mixta senum ac juvenum densentur funera, Hor. C. 1, 28, 19; cf.: haec recinunt juvenes [[dictata]] senesque, id. Ep. 1, 1, 55: [[aeque]] neglectum pueris senibusque nocebit, id. ib. 1, 1, 26: ter aevo [[functus]] [[senex]], i. e. [[Nestor]], id. C. 2, 9, 14: [[tun]]']] capite [[cano]] amas, [[senex]] nequissime? Plaut. Merc. 2, 2, 34: quo [[senex]] [[nequior]] [[nullus]] vivit, id. Cas. 5, 1, 10: te sene omnium senem neminem esse ignaviorem, id. ib. 2, 3, 28 et saep.—Fem.: hanc tot [[mala]] ferre senem, this old [[woman]], Tib. 1, 6, 82; Val. Fl. 1, 349; Stat. Th. 5, 149.— Comp., an [[elder]], [[elderly]] [[person]]; [[sometimes]] (esp. in the poets) also for [[senex]], an [[aged]] [[person]]: facilius sanescit [[puer]] vel [[adulescens]] [[quam]] [[senior]], Cels. 5, 26, 6: si [[quis]] Forte coheredum [[senior]] [[male]] tussiet, Hor. S. 2, 5, 107: vix ea [[fatus]] erat [[senior]] (i. e. [[Anchises]]), Verg. A. 2, 692; so, = [[senex]], Ov. M. 1, 645; 2, 702; 11, 646; 12, 182; 12, 540; id. F. 4, 515; Stat. S. 1, 3, 94; id. Achill. 2, 383 al.: ([[Servius]] [[Tullius]]) seniores a junioribus divisit, Cic. Rep. 2, 22, 39; cf. of the [[same]]: C. [[Tubero]] in Historiarum [[primo]] scripsit, Servium Tullium ... eos (milites) ab [[anno]] [[septimo]] [[decimo]] ad annum quadragesimum sextum juniores, supraque eum annum seniores appellasse, Gell. 10, 28, 1: centuriae juniorum seniorumque, Liv. 1, 43.—Poet.: centuriae seniorum [[simply]], for seniores, Hor. A. P. 341: curae fuit consulibus et senioribus Patrum, ut, etc., Liv. 2, 30: consulares ac seniores (opp. juniores Patrum), id. 3, 41: omnium seniorum, matrum familiae, virginum precibus et fletu excitati, Caes. B. C. 2, 4: [[sapienter]], ut [[senior]], suaserat, Flor. 1, 16, 10: juniores a senioribus [[consilium]] petiverunt, id. 2, 6, 26: haec ... laeti audiere juvenes, ingrata senioribus erant, Curt. 8, 1, 27: [[hinc]] [[inter]] juniores senesque orta [[contentio]] est, id. 8, 1, 31.—In eccl. Lat., an [[elder]] in the synagogue or [[church]], Vulg. Ezech. 7, 26; id. 2 Johan. 1.

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