Cyrus quidem apud Xenophontem eo sermone quem moriens habuit, cum admodum senex esset, negat se umquam sensisse senectutem suam imbecilliorem factam quam adulescentia fuisset.
Indeed, Cyrus, according to Xenophon, in that speech which he gave, dying, when he was very aged, denied having ever felt his old age to have been more feeble than his youth.
Dum haec aguntur, Curbaranni mater de civitate Aleph ad filium accessit, et de his quae inchoaverat acriter eum redarguere coepit, eique, quod vincendus esset a Christianis, et eodem anno, non in bello, morte subita moriturus, manifeste praedixit. Erat enim senex, utpote centenaria, et futurorum praesaga.
1975 translation by Marjorie Chibnall
While these events were taking place Kerbogha's mother came from the city of Aleppo to her son and began to criticize him severely for the enterprise he had undertaken, prophesying to him distinctly that he would be defeated by the Christians and would die within the year violently but not in battle. She was a very old woman, almost a centenarian, and a prophetess of things to come.
1661, Marcellus Malpighius, De pulmonibus obseruationes anatomicae, page 7:
Vlterius cum frequenter vesiculas, quae à Graecis hydatides dicuntur, in istis interstitijs obseruauerim, item in animalibus senibus, et alijs quibusdam morbo extinctis, puncta quaedam nigra, quae veluti linea tenui protracta totam interstitiorum propaginem signant, probabile credam diuerticula esse, et veluti emunctoria minimorum lobulorum; eadem quoque denigratio deprehenditur in glandulis leteribus asperae arteriae continuatis.
1803, Johann Gottlieb Wolstein, ractatus de vulnerationibus equorum, per arma inflictis, pro veterinariis belli tempore..., page 181:
Si tyronis ratiocinium physicae, anatomiae, physiologiae lumine, et praeceptorum fanaeque rationis conscientia dirigitur, rectum erit illius de morbo judicium, et an vulnus sanabile, periculosum, aut lethale in hac, vel illo loco sit, praedicere poterit; idque ideo, quia hoc vel illud symptoma apparet, hoc vel illus viscus, hae vasa, hi nervi deftructi, haec ossa conquassata, hae cartilagines; quia functiones vitales laesae sunt, animal senex aut juvenile, anni tempus et tempestas mala.
Quod tibi Decembri mense, quo volant mappae Gracilesque ligulae cereique chartaeque Et acuta senibus testa cum Damascenis, Praeter libellos vernulas nihil misi, Fortasse avarus videar aut inhumanus.
1993 translation by D. R. Shackleton Bailey
Perhaps I seem stingy or ungracious in that in the month of December, when napkins fly around and slender spoons and wax tapers and sheets of paper and conical jars of aged damsons, I have sent you nothing except home-bred little books.