I.in years, old, aged (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): “Nereus,” Verg. G. 4, 392: “Alethes,” id. A. 1, 121: “Emathion,” Ov. M. 5, 99: “pater,” id. ib. 8, 519: “patres,” id. ib. 7, 160: “senes,” Tac. H. 3, 33: “manus,” i. e. the Senate, Sil. 16, 653: “alios (deos) esse grandaevos semperque canos, alios juvenes atque pueros,” Plin. 2, 7, 5, § 17: “apes,” Verg. G. 4, 178: “consilia,” of an aged man, Val. Fl. 7, 348.
grandaevus , a, um, adj. grandisaevum,