LATN 201 Chapter 19 Passage "Sophocles"

Quam multa senes in mentibus tenent!

How much old men retain in their minds!

Si studium grave et labor et probitas in senectute remanent, saepe manent etiam memoria, scientia, sapientiaque.

If serious study and work and honesty remain in old age, often also memory, knowledge, and wisdom remain.

Sophocles, scriptor ille Graecus, ad summam senectutem tragoedias fecit;

Sophocles, that Greek writer, made tragedies into old age;

sed propter hoc studium familiam neglegere videbatur et a filiis in iudicium vocatus est.

but on account of this, he was seeming to neglect his family and was called by his sons into the court.

Tum auctor eam tragodeiam quam secum habuit et quam proxime scripserat, "Oedipum Coloneum," iudicibus recitavit.

Then the author had that tragedy with him that he had written recently. He recited "Oedipum Coloneum" to the judges.

Ubi haec tragoedia recitata est, senex sententiis iudicum est liberatus.

When he recited the tragedy, the old man was freed from the sentences of the judges.