It is useless to be always looking back to be a laudator temporis acti se puero is placed by the wise and genial Horace to the discredit and not to the credit of old age.
"John Keble's Parishes"
Charlotte M Yonge
Neander was not merely the historian of the dead past or laudator temporis acti.
"Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ"
Rev. A. Bernstein, B.D.
He is a dear old man of some seventy-eight summers, though somewhat of the laudator temporis acti school; but what good-nature and sense of humour there is in the good, honest face!
"A Cotswold Village"
J. Arthur Gibbs