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senex senis, adj. with comp. senior

SEN-, old, aged, advanced in years : si qui senes ac deformes erant: porci, Iu.: nemo est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere: quo erat nemo fere senior: quae vis senior est quam, etc.: seniores anni, O.: senior quam illa aetas ferebat, oratio, more mature .—As subst m., posit., an old man, aged person, graybeard (usu. of more than sixty years): ut tum ad senem senex de senectute, sic, etc.: senem in patriam revertentem, unde puer profectus sum, L.: Mixta senum ac iuvenum densentur funera, H.: ter aevo functus senex, i. e. Nestor , H.—As subst f., an old woman , Tb.— Comp, an elder, elderly person (usu. between fortyfive and sixty years of age): si quis Forte coheredum senior male tussiet, H.: seniores a iunioribus divisit: centuriae seniorum ac iuniorum, L.: omnium seniorum precibus excitati, Cs.: Vix ea fatus erat senior (i. e. senex), V.: senior Inachus, O.

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