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pleasant things of philosophy, and let the bitter and harsh 

 go. Carneades, of Cyrena, many years after, came to the 

 like age of eighty-five years : a man of a fluent eloquence, 

 and one who, by the acceptable and pleasant variety of his 

 knowledge, delighted both himself and others. But Orbi- 

 lius, who lived in Cicero s time, no philosopher or rheto 

 rician, but a grammarian, attained to a hundred years of 

 age; he was first a soldier, then a schoolmaster; a man 

 by nature tart both in his tongue and pen, and severe to 

 wards his scholars. 



12. Quintius Fabius Maximus was augur sixty-three 

 years, which showed him to be above eighty years of age 

 at his death ; though it be true, that in the augurship no 

 bility was more respected than age; a wise man, and a 

 great deliberator, and in all his proceedings moderate, and 

 not without affability severe. Masinissa, king of Numidia, 

 lived ninety years, and being more than eighty-five, got a 

 son ; a daring man, and trusting upon his fortune, who in 

 his youth had tasted of the inconstancy of fortune, but in 

 his succeeding age was constantly happy. But Marcus 

 Porcius Cato lived above ninety years of age ; a man of an 

 iron body and mind ; he had a bitter tongue, and loved to 

 cherish factions ; he was given to husbandry, and was to 

 himself and his family a physician. 



13. Terentia, Cicero s wife, lived a hundred and three 

 years; a woman afflicted with many crosses; first, with 

 the banishment of her husband, then with the difference 

 betwixt them ; lastly, with his last fatal misfortune. She 

 was also oftentimes vexed with the gout. Luceia must 

 needs exceed a hundred, by many years, for it is said, that 

 she acted a whole hundred years upon the stage, at first, 

 perhaps, representing the person of some young girl, at last 

 of some decrepit old woman. But Galeria Copiola, a player 

 also, and a dancer, was brought upon the stage as a novice, 

 in what year of her age is not known ; but ninety-nine years 

 after, at the dedication of the theatre by Pompey the Great, 

 she was shown upon the stage, not now for an actress, but 

 for a wonder. Neither was this all ; for after that, in the 

 solemnities for the health and life of Augustus, she was 

 shown upon the stage the third time. 



14. There was another actress, somewhat inferior in age, 

 but much superior in dignity, which lived well near ninety 

 years, I mean Livia Julia Augusta, wife to Augustus Caesar, 

 and mother to Tiberius. For if Augustus his life were a 

 play (as himself would have it, when as upon his deathbed 



