Note 447 — MENSIS MAIUS.
Reading edition
i. e. ‘old men must go over the bridge.’ See Cic. pro Roscio Amerino, 35, where the old edition of Osenbrüggen has a useful note. Also Varro, apud Lactant. Inst. 1. 21. 6. Ovid alludes to the proverb (5. 623 foll.) ‘Corpora post decies senos qui credidit annos Missa neci, sceleris crimine damnat avos.’