Age, Old

Age, Old

Alberich 500

years old, but still child-sized. [Ger. Legend: Walsh Classical, 13]

Chuffey

old clerk. [Br. Lit.: Martin Chuzzlewit]

Cumaean sibyl

was granted long life by Apollo; when she rejected his love, he withheld eternal youth and she withered away. [Gk. Myth.: Metamorphoses, 14]

Darby and Joan

happily settled elderly couple. [Br. Ballad: Brewer Dictionary, 300]

Elli

personification of Old Age, he out-wrestled Thor. [Norse Myth.: Edith Hamilton Mythology]

Ezekiel

portrayed with flowing white beard. [Art: Hall, 118]

Father Time

personification of the old year. [Folklore: Misc.]

Geritol

leading brand of tonic for geriatric health. [Trade marks: Crowley Trade, 230]

Matlock, Lucinda

vigorous old woman dies at 96, scorning the degeneracy around her. [Am. Poetry: Masters Spoon River Anthology]

Methuselah

oldest man mentioned in Bible. [O.T.: Genesis 5:27]

Parr, Thomas

husbandman; lived through reigns of ten sovereigns. [Br. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 805]

Philemon and Baucis

fabled aged couple. [Rom. Lit.: Metamorphoses]

Prufrock, J. Alfred “I

grow old, I grow old.” [Br. Lit.: “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” in Hart, 497]

Rabbi Ben Ezra

Browning’s poem about old age. [Br. Poetry: Benét, 836]

Storks’ Law

obliged children to maintain their needy parents in old age. [Rom. Hist.: Brewer Dictionary, 862]

Superannuated Man, The

Charles Lamb’s essay on his growing infirmities and subsequent retirement. [Br. Lit.: Lamb, Charles in Benét, 563]

Tithonus

granted immortality but not eternal youth; continually got older. [Gk. Myth.: Kravitz]