Page:Cicero - de senectute (on old age) - Peabody 1884.djvu/10

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Synopsis.
§14. Examples of old men who have continued to find delight in learning, literary labor, or public service.
15. The pleasures of agriculture.
16. Examples of honored and happy old age in rural life. Comforts belonging to life on a farm.
17. The horticulture of Cyrus the younger.
18. Honorable old age must be provided for by a virtuous youth.
19. Death not to be feared.
20. Death easier and less repugnant to nature in old age than in youth.
21. Reasons for believing the soul to be immortal.
22. The last words of Cyrus the elder, as reported by Xenophon.
23. Immortality anticipated with longing.