If some god should give me leave to return to infancy from my old age, to weep once more in my cradle, I should vehemently protest! For, truly, after I have run my race I have no wish to be recalled, as it were, from the goal to the starting-place. M. Tullius Cicero. Cato the Elder: On Old Age. Senectute. Section 83.
Image: Long distance runners who have settled into their stride on a black-figured Panathenaic amphora, 320 BCE attributed to the Nichomachos Group at the J. Paul Getty Museum. Image courtesy of the Perseus Digital Library.
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