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To old men death is _præ januis_, stands before their door, &c. Old men have (_pedem in cymbâ Charonis_) one foot in the grave already; and the Greek word [Greek: gêrôn] (an old man) is derived from [Greek: para to eis gên oran], which signifies a looking towards the ground; decrepit age goes stooping and grovelling, as groaning to the grave. It doth not only expect death, but oft solicits it.