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Dodder V Tremble Totter Usu Age Dotage I

Word dodder
Definition v. To tremble or totter, usu. because of old age.
Sentence So, I'm in my dotage, am I? A doddering wreck too spent to see the truth?
Source Virgil, The Aeneid, Book 7 l. 530–531, p. 228

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