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... fuge suspicari, cuius octavum trepidavit aetas claudere...

From the Paul Shorey (Perseus) commentary on "octavum trepidavit": Horace was forty years old B.C. 25....The technical phrase suggested and avoided is condere lustrum. Cf. condere diem, 4.5.29..."trepidavit": has all too quickly reached, i.e. is hovering on the verge of. A favorite word. Cf. 2.11.4; 2.3.12; 2. 19.5; 3.27.17; 3.29.32; 4.11.11.