No fan of old age …

… The University Bookman: The Best Classical Latin Poet You’ve Never Heard Of. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Maximianus has no truck with the sunny view of old age that you find in Cicero or AARP, The Magazine; that is for children. He is with Ecclesiastes: old age is nothing but the evil days when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them. But it’s worse, because unlike the biblical sage, Maximianus has no god to believe in. It is simply horror upon horror until you die. Looks fail, the muscles fail, erections fail, the body fails; money loses its point. You become unrecognizable.