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1. 노년, 노쇠, 만년, 노령

1. old age, extreme age, senility

예문

• Per has senectae splendidas supplex comas fessumque curis pectus et cara ubera precor, furorem siste teque ipsa adiuva: (Seneca, Phaedra 3:39)

  (세네카, 파이드라 3:39)

• te viridem videt immunemque senectae Phasidis in ripa stantem iuvenesque vocantem. (C. Valerius Catullus, Argonautica, C. Valeri Flacci Argonauticon Liber Primus. 82:1)

  (가이우스 발레리우스 카툴루스, 아르고나우티카, 82:1)

• te, puer, in nostrae durus tormenta senectae nune lacerat. (C. Valerius Catullus, Argonautica, C. Valeri Flacci Argonauticon Liber Primus. 757:1)

  (가이우스 발레리우스 카툴루스, 아르고나우티카, 757:1)

• tantumque nefas mens conscia vatum conticuit, patriae exitium crudele senectae (C. Valerius Catullus, Argonautica, C. Valeri Flacci Argonauticon Liber Tertius. 320:1)

  (가이우스 발레리우스 카툴루스, 아르고나우티카, 320:1)

• done et Aeeten inopis post longa senectae exilia heu magnis quantumlibet impia fatis (C. Valerius Catullus, Argonautica, C. Valeri Flacci Argonauticon Liber Quintus. 721:1)

  (가이우스 발레리우스 카툴루스, 아르고나우티카, 721:1)

유의어 사전

1. Vetus homo (ἔτος) denotes an old man, from the fiftieth year of his life, in opp. to juvenis, a young man, like γέρων; whereas senex (ἄναξ? or ἕνουσ ἔχων?), an old man from his sixtieth year, with the accessory notion of his being worthy of respect, like πρεσβύτης; lastly, grandævus and longævus denote a very aged man, who has already exceeded the usual duration of life, and who is, consequently, somewhere about eighty or upwards. 2. Senecta denotes old age indifferently, merely as a period of life; senectus, as a venerable and experienced age, that commands respect and indulgence; senium, the infirm and burdensome age, which is to be looked upon as a disease. (iv. 89.)

출처: Döderlein's Hand-book of Latin Synonymes by Ludwig von Doederlein