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'As one who has already attained and not yet passed perfection'
Now that I'm 49 years old, I am pleased to pass along this passage from Macrobius's Commentary on Cicero's "Dream of Scipio" (William H. Stahl trans. 1952):
[T]he number seven multiplied by itself produces the age which is properly considered and called perfect, so that a man of this age, as one who has already attained and not yet passed perfection, is considered ripe in wisdom and not unfit for the exercise of his physical powers.
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