senexn.

1898 E. P. Morris Captives & Trinummus of Plautus p. xxxvi Hegio becomes in part the comicus stultus senex, chiefly concerned with the humiliation of having been deceived.

1923 G. Norwood Art of Terence v. 76 How much better to collect the necessary funds permanently and elegantly from the senes!

1923 G. Norwood Art of Terence vii. 128 Micio has gone back to his normal position of a lepidus senex.

1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 172 Central to the alazon [sc. imposter] group is the senex iratus or heavy father.

1957 F. N. Robinson Wks. Chaucer (ed. 2) 684/1 The Oxford carpenter is an example of the familiar figure of the ‘senex amans’.

1968 E. Segal Roman Laughter iv. 119 Plautus makes the inversion of status still more meaningful for his countrymen by presenting as comic butts senes who are also senatores.

1975 H. A. Kelly Love & Marriage in Age of Chaucer xi. 271 William Langland, writing when he himself was admittedly a senex non potens, shows that the sentiment could be held seriously in a less absurd match than that between January and May.

1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 May 623/3 An archetypal comedy plot, deprecating December/May marriages and involving the victory of the young man over the senex... The emotions of a comic senex.