Tali modo cum VII et LXX annos complesset atque ad extremam senectutem non minus dignitate quam gratia fortunaque crevisset'multas enim hereditates nulla alia re quam bonitate consecutus est'tantaque prosperitate usus esset valetudinis, ut annis triginta medicina non indiguisset, nactus est morbum, quem initio et ipse et medici contempserunt; nam putarunt esse tenesmon, cui remedia celeria faciliaque proponebantur.
In this fashion Atticus completed seventy-seven years, and up to that advanced age increased in dignity, as well as in importance and fortune'for he acquired many inheritances through no other cause than his good qualities. He also enjoyed such excellent health that for thirty years he required no medical treatment. But just at that time he fell ill of a complaint of which at first both he himself and his physicians made light; for they thought it was a dysentery, for which speedy and easy remedies were usually available.
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