Chapter 17-S.A. 1-12, Old Age Love

1. Greeting, good friend, to whom I united my son yesterday.
2. Dionysus, who spoke about this before, sailed from Greece to Sicily though a storm.
3. Many citizens either don't see the dangers which are imminent or they neglect what they see.
4. He who gives quickly gives twice.
5. He who has begun, the deed had been made half. Begin!
6. Fortune is easy: he demands back what he gives quickly.
7. Fortune makes foolish him whom she loves too much.
8. Not only is fortune blind, but it also makes those who it always helps blind.
9. He who conquers himself in victory conquers twice.
10. Pretense destroys truth, without which the name of friendship is not able to have power.
11. I truly loved that man's virtue, which did not perish with his body.
12. Avoid the crowd. Live with these men who are able to make you better; let in those whom you can make better.

On the Pleasures of Love in Old Age
Is love in old age? Truly the pleasure is less, but less also is desire. But nothing is a concern to us, if we are not desiring, and he who does not desire does not lack. Youths desire excessively; old men often have much love and wisdom. Therefore, I think that this time of life is pleasant.

Chapter 17 Vocab Quiz

1. libellus-little book
2. quae-who
3. caecus-blind
4. levis-light
5. aut-or
6. cito-quickly
7. quoque-also
8. admittere-to admit
9. coepi-began
10. cupio-to desire
11. deleo-to destroy