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LAELIUS True, Cato, but you will do a thing
most agreeable to us both—assuming that I may
speak for Scipio, too—if, since we hope to become
old (at least we wish it), you will, long in advance,
teach us on what principles we may most easily
support the weight of increasing years.
CATO. To be sure I will, Laelius, especially if,
as you say, it is going to prove agreeable to you
both.
LAELIUS. Unless it is too much trouble to you,
Cato, since you have, as it were, travelled the long
road upon which we also must set out, we really do
wish to see what sort of a place it is at which you
have arrived.1
1 Cf. Plato, Rep. 328 E. Cicero almost translates the words there addressed by Socrates to the aged Cephalus.
Cicero: De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With An English Translation. William Armistead Falconer. Cambridge. Harvard University Press; Cambridge, Mass., London, England. 1923.
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