202 pliny's natueal history. [Book VII. 



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^ht.*' Quintus Fabius Maximus was an augur for sixty- 

 three years.*^ M. Perperna, and more recently, L. Volusius 

 Saturninus, survived all those whose suffrages each had solicited 

 on the occasion of his consulship ;'^^ Perperna lived ninety- 

 eight years, and left after him only seven of those whose 

 names, when censor, he had enrolled. Connected with this 

 fact, it also suggests itself, and deserves to be remarked, that 

 it has happened only once, that five successive years have 

 ever passed without the death of a senator taking place ; this 

 ^vas the case fi'om the occasion on which the censors Flaccus 

 and Albinus performed the lustration, in the year of the City 

 579, until the time of the succeeding censors.^" M. Valerius 

 Corvinus completed one hundred years, fortj^-six of which in^ 

 tervened between his first and sixth consulship. ^^ He occupied 

 the curule chair twenty-one times," a thing that was never 

 the case with any one besides. The pontiff Metellus also at- 

 tained the same age.^^ 



Among women also, Livia, the wife of Rutilius, exceeded 

 her ninety-sixth year ; during the reign of Claudius, Statilia, 

 a member of a noble family, died at the age of ninety-nine ; 

 Terentia, the wife of Cicero, lived one liundred and three 

 years, and Clodia, the wife of Ofilius, one hundred and fifteen ; 

 she had fifteen children.^* 



Lucceia, an actress in the mimes, performed on the stage 



^'^ "We have an account of Gorgias in Cicero, de Senect. sec. 9 ; in Vale- 

 rius Maximus, B. viii. c. 13, and in Lucian. — B. 



*s Valerius Maximus, tibi stipra, reduces this to sixty-two years. — B. 



''^ "We have the same statement respecting Peperna in Valerius Maximus, 

 but he does not mention his age. — B. 



^^ The names of the succeeding censors were C. Claudius Pulcher, and 

 T. Sempronius Gracchus. 



^^ V. Maximus gives the same account of the age of Corvinus, but he states 

 the interval between his consulships to have been forty-seven years. Ac- 

 cording to the Fasti, in Dr. Smith's Dictionary of Antiquities, the interval 

 was forty-eight years, from a.u.c. 406 to a.u.c. 455. — B. 



^' The honour of the curule-chair — " sella curulis." It was attached to 

 the offices of consul, praetor, and aedile; Corvinus had, therefore, been 

 elected to one or other of these offices twenty-one times. — B. 



^3 Valerius Maximus gives the same account of Metellus. He also in- 

 forms us that Metellus, although of an advanced age when created pontifif, 

 held the office for twenty-two years ; so also Cicero, de Senect. sec. 9. — B. 



^^ We have the same account of these females in Valerius Maximus. 

 He adds, that Clodia survived all her children ; Seneca, Epist. 77, abo refers 

 to the great age of Statilia. — B. 



