Fr Ambrose is right to believe his patron Saint, St Ambrose, but might want to get the philological matters right in reading him.
I too was wrong and apologised for it, Centurio correcting me on Emperors' dates and so.
PS: I think the limit between senior and senex was not 60 after all but 65. That giving a fair space of time before the last of ages before death.
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Here are the ages according to four authorities.
Two agree, namely Sts Augustine and Isidor of Sevilla:
1 Infantia - to 7
2 Pueritia - to emission of semen or 14
3 Adolescentia - to beard or 24
4 Iuventus - to 50
5 Gravitas, aetas seniorum - to 70
6 Senectus, aetas senum - to death.
St Bede calls 5 senectus and 6 aetas decrepita.
The author of De Hebdomadibus (a Greek, probably from pagan times) gives these limits:
1 Puerulus - to 7
2 Puer - to emission of semen or 14
3 Adolescens - to beardgrowth or 21
4 Iuvenis - to 35
5 Vir - to 49
6 Senior - to 63
7 Senex - to 98 (death).
Cited in Dictionnaire Raisonné du Moyen Age Occidental by editors Jacques Le Goff and Jean-Claude Schmitt.
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