The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table by Oliver Wendell Holmes: “He had been thinking the matter over, he said,--had read Cicero "De Senectute," and made up his mind to meet old age half way.”
Gargantua and Pantagruel by Francois Rabelais: “in verification whereof thou hast the authority of Marcus Tullius in his book of old age, and the sentence of Plutarch in the book entitled How a man may praise himself without envy”