Old age lacks the heavy banquet, the loaded table, and the oft-filled cup. Therefore it also lacks drunkenness, indigestion, and loss of sleep. M. Tullius Cicero. Cato the Elder: on old age. De Senectute. Section 44.
Image: A section of the fresco from the southern wall of the triclinium in the House of the Golden Bracelet in Pompeii depicting the wedding of Alexander the Great and Roxanne.
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