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	The Book of the Dun Cow, Walter Wangerin - HarperAcademic
		Senex weeps for his lack of an heir and the disrespect his hens show him.
		Senex presents the problem of a leader who can no longer command the respect necessary for effective rule and whose land is threatened by civil war because he has no natural heir.
		Senex: a characteristic name for the old man, usually a comic character typically foolish, gullible, and nearsighted because of his vanity.
	www.harperacademic.com /catalog/instructors_guide_xml.asp?isbn=0060574607 (6385 words)

	Women's Roles in Plautine Comedy
		In order to be a successful matrona, she must unlearn her maiden virtues; they advise her to win imperium, or absolute power, over her husband, to let her voice be heard, to take the shirt off his back, and to be crafty day and night.
		They describe as the best sort of wife one who gives no cause for gossip, who has the power to do wrong but chooses not to, who avoids behavior she will regret the next day, and who knows herself and is cheerful and patient in good fortune and adversity.
		She is a serious composite of the best elements of the three major female comic roles: the pudica puella, or modest maiden, the morigera matrona, or obedient wife, and the amans amica, or passionate girlfriend.
	www.vroma.org /~araia/plautinewomen.html (4442 words)

	Gothic language (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		In 1397, living as a layman in the priory of St. Mary Overie, Southwark, London, Gower married Agnes Groundolf, who survived him.
		In 1400 Gower described himself as "senex et cecus" ("old and blind"), and on Oct. 24, 1408, his will was proved; he left bequests to the Southwark priory, where he is buried.
		Gower's three major works are in French, English, and Latin, and he also wrote a series of French balades intended for the English court.
	www.orbilat.com /Encyclopaedia/G/Gower_John.html (250 words)

	Slater 1985 Plautus in Performance
		This chapter examines the Persa, which portrays the slave Toxilus, who is taking on the role of the adulescens amans, in a drastic departure from comedic stock types.
		They are told at the end that their applause will determine the fate of Demaenetus, a lecherous senex who tries to bargain for one night with the mistress he helped obtain for his son.
		A theme in the play is role reversals, with the senex taking over the role of the adulescens amans and the matrona fulfilling the servus callidus stock role.
	home.att.net /~c.c.major/pla/slater1985.html (695 words)

	Gower as Gerontion; Oneiric Autobiography in the
		Confessio Amantis, when Amans swoons like a fire quenched with water, and the elderly visionary company of love parades itself before him, in a kind of dream within a dream.
		In the prose epitome that precedes the epistle to Arundel Gower describes himself as bent by age and sickness, senex et cecus.
		Walking in the month of May, estranged from ordinary young lovers, Amans is made uncomfortable by the conventional stimulus for passion, the sensuous song of birds (Yeats' "the young in one another's arms,/ Birds in the trees"):
	www.bu.edu /english/levine/gowtalk.htm (5144 words)

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		K.I.P.B.T. The reminiscences of your correspondent SENEX concerning the riots of London in the last century form an interesting addition to the records of those troubled times; but in all these matters correctness as to dates and facts are of immense importance.
		By the way, if SENEX was "personally either an actor or spectator" in _this_ outbreak, he fully establishes his claim to the signature he adopts.
		Like her brother, she was most miserly in her habits, and not distinguished by that virtue which some say is next to godliness.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/2/3/15232/15232-8.txt (16389 words)

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		Juppiter is for Jou-pater, and therefore contains the same stem as in Jov-is, Jov-i, etc. Navis was originally a diphthong stem ending in au-, but it has passed over to the i-stems (Sec.
		Senex, m., Caro, f., Os, n., _old man_.
		_Nom._ senex caro os _Gen._ senis carnis ossis _Dat._ seni carni ossi _Acc._ senem carnem os _Voc._ senex caro os _Abl._ sene carne osse PLURAL.
	www.ibiblio.org /pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/5/6/6/15665/15665.txt (13777 words)

	Literary Terms and Definitions S (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		SENEX AMANS (from Latin "ancient lover"; also spelled senex amanz in Old French): A stock character in medieval fabliaux, courtly romances, and in classical drama, the senex amans is an old, ugly, jealous man who is married to a younger, attractive unhappy young woman.
		He is often a poor lover (or even impotent) with bad breath, wrinkled skin, and grey hair.
		We find examples of the senex amans in Chaucer's "Miller's Tale" and "The Franklin's Tale," in in various other fabliaux.
	guweb2.gonzaga.edu /faculty/wheeler/lit_terms_S.html (6186 words)

	History of Roman Literature, A
		1), _Mittit et optat amans quo mittitur ire salutem, Haemonis Haemonio Laodamia viro_: antithesis (Am.
		3), _Quae bello est habilis veneri quoque convenit aetas; Turpe senex miles turpe senilis amor_.
		These illustrations might be indefinitely increased, and the analysis carried much further.
	manybooks.net /pages/cruttweletext058romn10/649.html (225 words)

	Giordano Bruno: De Vinculis in Genere ("A general account of bonding")
		Hoc vinculo rapitur amans, ut in amatum transferri velit, vel totum concipere amatum et imbibere.
		Hinc adverte ut qui iunior extitarit et facilis, vir est constantior et prudentior, senex suspiciosior magis et morosus, decrepitus contemnit et fastidit.
		genae et es, quibus se vinciri sentit amans, quae tamen vel eodem numero diversis tributa subiectis tantum abest interdum ut similiter vinciant, ut etiam Cupidinis vincula dissolvant vel arceant.
	www.esotericarchives.com /bruno/vinculis.htm (11011 words)

	Papa Don't Preach: The Power of Prolixity in Pericles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		One of the few good readers of this literary 'ancestor,' Shakespeare recognized that Gower's authorial persona as a man of eminent respectability but unremarkable talent was, in fact, a sophisticated narrative strategy that he developed to ameliorate the effects of his shocking and xxxx
		With an eye to detail that tends towards the prurient, Genius, ancient priest of love and confessor to the besotted lover Amans, recounts, throughout the Confessio Amantis, a succession of tales of homosexuality, adultery, and sexual perversity.
		By presenting Gower, Jonson's adopted literary 'father,' as a comic senex, Shakespeare both engages with and critiques Jonsonian dramatic theory.
	www.utpjournals.com /product/utq/712/712_williams.html (8877 words)

	Commentary on Poem 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		His silent presence (he reemerges, perhaps, in line 31 as "quicumque" and in line 45 in the verb "vides") gives the long monologue the impression of a dialogue.
		Ovid repeats the phrase "militat omnis amans"in the first couplet, and by so doing not only increases its force, but also sets "militat" and "amans" equally in the two most important positions in the Latin sentence--the one at the beginning and the other at the end.
		The poet argues that both the soldier and the lover need to be young.
	www.anselm.edu /internet/classics/Latin/ovid2/commentpoem1.html (334 words)

	Francesco Petrarch - Father of Humanism
		Pone senex pueri in gremio, uix mole soporis Lumina pressa mouens, lenibat cantibus auras; 100 Mox siluit uictus, cesserunt carmina somno, Argutum dircea palus amisit olorem.
		Vnum ibi cecropii contemptum in gramine saltus, Ingenio rectum, claudum pede, uoce calenti Sparthanos in bella canes accendere uidi; Vnum uoce parem summis, per litora longe 110 Solum, qui populo leges et iura dedisset, Iamque senex musis operam daret, urbe relicta.
		Caluus amans alius, restinctam carmine flammam Flens quasi supplicium properataque tempora fati; Accensamque alius; dubium romanus an umber, 210 Vmber erat uarieque minax et blandus amice.
	petrarch.petersadlon.com /read_carmen.html?s=10 (2339 words)

	Controversiae: Liber II
		Iam senex factus est, nisi quod sibi nondum videtur; in luxuriam usque eo se proiecit ut accusem.
		Senex amans, senex ebrius, circumdatus sertis et delibutus unguentis et in praeteritos annos se retro agens et validius in voluptatibus quam iuvenis exultans, nonne portentum est?
		Alter solito tempore labitur, alter insolito; alter alieno, alter suo; alter annos sequitur, alter senectuti repugnat.
	www.forumromanum.org /literature/controversiae2.html (12390 words)

	The Merchant Riverside (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The opening debate on marriage, which draws on many of the same sources as The Wife of Bath's Prologue and in which she herself is cited as an "auctoritee," is obviously Chaucer's own invention.
		Though previous literature offers many examples of the senex amans (the aged lover), Chaucer's January is by far the most appalling, while May, who reads her love's letters in the privy, is equally original, a worthy mate for this quintessentially dirty old man.
		It has the obligatory triangle--jealous old husband, restless young wife, lusty squire--and the inevitable act of adultery achieved through trickery.
	athena.english.vt.edu /~nquesinb/chaucer/f-rvmerc.htm (334 words)

	Allen and Greenough Part I: Forms (search version)
		In iter, itineris (N.), iecur, iecinoris (iecoris) (N.), supellex, supellectilis (F.), the nominative has been formed from a shorter stem; in senex, senis, from a longer; so that these words show a combination of forms from two distinct stems.
		In nix, nivis the nominative retains a g from the original stem, the g uniting with s, the nominative ending, to form x.
		Similarly, senex, old man, and iuvenis, young man, are sometimes called masculine adjectives.
	community.middlebury.edu /~harris/AG_1.html (16629 words)

	Medieval Sourcebook: Adamnan: Life of St. Columba. Latin Text
		Alter proinde plebeus, nomine Glasdercus, et ipse de filio quem ibidem secum habuit nihilominus interrogans, talem Sancti audit responsionem: Filius tuus Ernanus suos videbit nepotes et in hac insula senex sepelietur.
		hodie in hac hujus loci terrula quidam gentilis senex, naturale per totam bonum custodiens vitam, et baptizabitur, et morietur, et sepelietur.
		QUADAM die quidam bonae indolis juvenis, Lugneus nomine, qui postea senex in monasterio Elenae insulae praepositus erat, ad Sanctum veniens, queritur de profluvio sanguinis, qui crebro per multos menses de naribus ejus immoderate profluebat.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/basis/columba-l.html (12776 words)

	Medieval Weddings and Customs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		More than 75% of the women were married by the age of 19.
		This would really contribute to the popularity of the senex amans stories in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales.
		The relationship between marriage and property gain is an important thing to remember when looking at Chaucer's work.
	www28.brinkster.com /adrake/chaucer1.htm (804 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		At hoc unum ceteris omnibus gravius semper duxi, quod in huiusmodi vitae genus detrusus essem, a 35 quo cum animo tum corpore essem alienissimus: animo, quod a caerimoniis abhorrerem et libertatis amans essem; corpore, quod etiamsi maxime placuisset vitae institutum, corporis natura non ferebat eiusmodi labores.
		Redibo senex et canus, qui iuvenis exivi, redibo valetudinarius; 245 exponar contemptui etiam infimorum, solitus et a maximis honorari.
		Nam quod polliceris officium tuum in quaerenda sede, ubi cum maximo, ut scribis, vivam emolumento; quid sit, non possum coniectare, nisi forte collocabis me 250 apud monachas aliquas, ut serviam mulieribus, qui nec archiepiscopis nec regibus unquam servire volui.
	www.outfo.org /literature/pg/etext05/7eras10.txt (17872 words)

	Youth Against Age Chapter 1
		The emotional distance between observed and observer accentuates the contrast between innocence and experience, ignorance and knowledge.
		The watcher's pleasure is that of King Neptune, the senex
		amans, whose aged coldness is inflamed by the heat of Leander's passion and who steals delight from watery contact with the helpless youth:
	cla.calpoly.edu:16080 /~SMARX/Publications/YouthAge/Chap1.html (17296 words)

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		January's literal practice of "yconomique" (which, note, is quite uneconomical) continues when he prepares May for her initiation into the mysteries of the connubial couch.
		However, we can rely on what seems the Merchant's typical ploy: wherever a standard of any sort seems relevant, we should adduce it because the Merchant consistently and obsessively seeks to destroy standards--to set them up in contexts where they must inevitably fail.
		Hence we can and should assume that January should be judged according as he actually follows the fin'amors directives which Amis gives Amans; and we should not be surprised to discover that he follows them in such a way as not to follow them at all.
	www.clas.ufl.edu /users/rashoaf/currency/twelve.html (9464 words)

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		What response does May give to explain the situation to her husband once his sight is restored?
		In many respects, January is a senex amans, or foolish old dotard.
		This story could be read, at least metaphorically, as a "chastity belt" story.
	www.llp.armstrong.edu /5800/chstudy.html (4256 words)

	Terence: Andria
		civem Atticam esse hanc: "fuit olim quidam senex
		sequar hos: nolo me in tempore hoc videat senex.
		nescioquis senex modo venit, ellum, confidens catus: 855
	www.ancienttexts.org /library/latinlibrary/ter.andria.html (3442 words)

	Kathy Cawsey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The problems the wife in Dunbar’s poem describes, therefore, are – despite their humour – quite realistic: a wife would be unable to buy anything for herself, and would be forced to find some way of persuading her husband to buy it for her.
		Yet the power in the poem is not solely on the husband’s side, for Dunbar clearly demonstrates that a ‘senex amans’ (an old lover) will have grievances as well.
		The young wife can withhold sex (even though she initially says she cannot, she evidently does 141).
	www.insitegrafx.hu /theanachronist/html/2000/cawsey.html (7328 words)

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