(The terms for the different ages of man are _infans, puer,
adulescens, iuvenis, senior, senex, grandis natu_.)
_ea aetate, id aetatis esse_—to be of such and such an age.
_a puero (is), a parvo (is), a parvulo (is)_—from youth up.
_a teneris unguiculis_ (ἐξ ἁπαλων ὀνύχων) (Fam. 1. 6. 2)—from one's
cradle, from one's earliest childhood.
_ab ineunte (prima) aetate_ (De Or. 1. 21. 97)—from one's entry into
civil life.
_ex pueris excedere_—to leave one's boyhood behind one, become a man.
_flos aetatis_—the prime of youthful vigour.
_aetate florere, vigere_—to be in the prime of life.
_integra aetate esse_—to be in the prime of life.
_adulescentia deferbuit_—the fires of youth have cooled.
_aetate progrediente_—with advancing years.
_aetate ingravescente_—with the weight, weakness of declining years.
_aetas constans, media, firmata, corroborata_ (not _virilis_)—manhood.
_grandior factus_—having reached man's estate.
_corroborata, firmata aetate_—having reached man's estate.
_sui iuris factum esse_—to have become independent, be no longer a
minor.
_aetate provectum esse_ (not _aetate provecta_)—to be advanced in years.
_longius aetate provectum esse_—to be more advanced in years.
_grandis natu_—aged.
_aetate affecta esse_—to be infirm through old age.
_vires consenescunt_—to become old and feeble.
_senectute, senio confectum esse_—to be worn out by old age.
_exacta aetate mori_—to die at a good old age.
_ad summam senectutem pervenire_—to live to a very great age.
_senectus nobis obrēpit_—old age creeps on us insensibly.
_admodum adulescens, senex_—still quote a young (old) man.
_extrema aetas_—the last stage of life, one's last days.
_extremum tempus aetatis_—the last stage of life, one's last days.
_vita occidens_—the evening of life.
_aequalem esse alicuius_—to be a contemporary of a person.
_maior (natu)_—the elder
_aetate alicui antecedere, anteire_—to be older than.
_quot annos natus es?_—how old are you?
_qua aetate es?_—how old are you?
_tredecim annos natus sum_—I am thirteen years old.
_tertium decimum annum ago_—I am in my thirteenth year.
_puer decem annorum_—a boy ten years old.
_decimum aetatis annum ingredi_—to be entering on one's tenth year.
_decem annos vixisse_—to be ten years old.
_decimum annum excessisse, egressum esse_—to be more than ten years
old, to have entered on one's eleventh year.
_minorem esse viginti annis_—to be not yet twenty.
_tum habebam decem annos_—I was ten years old at the time.
_centum annos complere_—to reach one's hundredth year, to live to be a
hundred.
_vitam ad annum centesimum perducere_—to reach one's hundredth year,
to live to be a hundred.
_accessio paucorum annorum_—the addition of a few years.
_tertiam iam aetatem videre_—to be middle-aged (_i.e._ between thirty
and forty).
_in aetatem alicuius, in annum incidere_—to happen during a person's
life, year of office.
_omnium suorum_ or _omnibus suis superstitem esse_—to outlive, survive
all one's kin.
_homines qui nunc sunt_ (opp. _qui tunc fuerunt_)—our contemporaries;
men of our time.
_homines huius aetatis, nostrae memoriae_—our contemporaries; men of
our time.
_posteri_—posterity.
_scriptores aetate posteriores_ or _inferiores_—later writers.