LIBER VII · CAPUT 14
AT WHAT AGE GENERATION CEASES
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Mulier post quinquagensimum annum non gignit, maiorque pars XL profluvium genitale sistit. nam in viris Masinissam regem post LXXXVI annum generasse filium, quem Methimannumappellaverit, clarum est, Catonem censorium octogensimo exacto e filia Salonis clientis sui. qua de causa aliorum eius liberum propago Liciniani sunt cognominati, hi Saloniani, ex quis Uticensis fuit. nuper etiam L. Volusio Saturnino in urbis praefectura extincto notum est e Cornelia Scipionum gentis Volusium Saturninum, qui fuit consul, genitum post LXII annum. et usque ad LXXV apud ignobiles vulgaris reperitur generatio.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
Women cease to bear children at their fiftieth year, and, with the greater part of them, the monthly discharge ceases at the age of forty. But with respect to the male sex, it is a well-known fact, that King Masinissa, when he was past his eighty-sixth year, had a son born to him, whom he named Metimanus, and that Cato the Censor, after he had completed his eightieth year, had a son by the daughter of his client, Salonius: a circumstance from which, while the descendants of his other sons were surnamed Liciniani, those of this son were called Saloniani, of whom Cato of Utica was one. It is equally well known, too, that L. Volusius Saturninus, who lately died while prefect of the city, had a son when he was past his seventy-second year, by Cornelia, a member of the family of the Scipios, Volusius Saturninus, who was afterwards consul. Among the lower classes of the people, we not uncommonly meet with men who become the fathers of children after the age of seventy-five.