If you want to practice the Latin you learned–in school? church? Italy?–read the book How to Grow Old.
You can read Latin on the left page. On the right page, read English words translated by an old Roman Senator named Marcus Tullius Cicero.
When? March 44 BC. About the time when Julius Caesar should have listened to the “Beware the Ides of March” words of Bill Shakespeare and stayed in his basement.
On Cicero’s page 55, read
So you see how old age, far from being feeble and sluggish, can be very active, always doing and engaged in something, as it follows the pursuit of earlier years…
Yep. That’s translated Texan–means yes. Went to work, age 15, part-time on that Abilene daily newspaper. And now you get a weekly essay–OK, blog–at dickelam.com. Tell some of your friends—and all of your enemies.
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