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Drone-like and idle
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Pete B <[log in to unmask]>
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Informed Discussion of Beekeeping Issues and Bee Biology <[log in to unmask]>
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Sat, 25 Jan 2020 10:05:34 -0500
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> Aaron Morris - thinking I've been around a LONG time!

From Thomas Newton's translation of Cicero's "Worthye Book of Olde Age" (1569), regarding the "old" --

> They in mine opynion haue most worthely & comendably played the pageaunte of ye whole discourse of their age, & not like dranelike & idle stage players in the last act of al, geuen ouer & quailed.

rendered into modern English by me:

In my opinion, they have most worthily and commendably played the pageant of the whole course of their lives, and aren’t drone-like and idle stage players in the last act, hunched over and cowering. 

plb

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