Viden ut faces

Splendidas quatiunt comas?

The two pictures, further on in the poem, of a peaceful old age prolonged to the utmost limit of human life—

Usque dum tremulum movens

Cana tempus anilitas

Omnia omnibus annuit—

and of infancy, awakening into consciousness and affection,—

Torquatus volo parvulus

Matris e gremio suae

Porrigens teneras manus,