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,