Sophocles

The New Latin Reader by Sidney Charles Walker. Internet Archive link. This is story 2 in the "Narrationes" section; most of the stories in this book are Bible stories. There is also a vocabulary in back of the book, plus a "key" consisting of an interlinear translation of each story. 

Sophocles ad summam senectutem tragoedias fecit. Propter quod studium cum rem familiarem negligere videretur, a filiis in judicium vocatus est, ut judices a rei familiaris administratione removerent eum quasi desipientem quemadmodum apud Romanos bonis interdici solebat patribus male rem gerentibus. Tum senex recitavit judicibus eam fabulam, quam proxime scripserat, quaesivitque, num illud carmen hominis desipientis esse videretur. Quo recitato, sententiis judicum est liberatus.Scilurus,

Sophocles
ad summam senectutem
tragoedias fecit.
Propter quod studium
cum
rem familiarem negligere
videretur,
a filiis
in judicium vocatus est,
ut judices
a rei familiaris administratione
removerent eum
quasi desipientem
quemadmodum
apud Romanos
bonis interdici solebat
patribus
male rem gerentibus.
Tum senex
recitavit judicibus
eam fabulam,
quam proxime scripserat,
quaesivitque,
num illud
carmen hominis desipientis
esse videretur.
Quo recitato,
sententiis judicum
est liberatus.

Sophocles in his extreme old age Sophocles ad summam senectutem composed tragedies tragoedias fecit. When he seemed to neglect the family estate cum rem familiarem negligere videretur on account of this endeavor propter quod studium, he was called into court by his sons a filiis in judicium vocatus est, to have the judges remove him ut judices removerent eum from the administration of the family estate a rei familiaris administratione as being incompetent quasi desipientem for among the Romans (sic!) quemadmodum apud Romanos it was the custom for fathers to be forbidden the use of their goods bonis interdici solebat patribus if they were managing the estate badly male rem gerentibus. Then the old man recited for the judges the play Tum senex recitavit judicibus eam fabulam, which he had most recently written quam proxime scripserat, and he asked quaesivitque, whether it appeared to be num illud esse videretur the composition of an incompetent person carmen hominis desipientis. After he had recited the play Quo recitato, he was set free by the opinion of the judges sententiis judicum est liberatus.