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oration was very memorable, showing an invincible spirit 

 and strength of mind. &quot; I have, with great grief of mind 

 (Fathers Conscript), these many years borne my blindness, 

 but now I could wish that I were deaf also, when I hear 

 you speak to such dishonourable treaties.&quot; Marcus Per- 

 penna lived ninety-eight years, surviving all those whose 

 suffrages he had gathered in the senatehouse, being consul, 

 I mean all the senators at that time, as also all those whoin 

 a little after, being consul, he chose into the senate, seven 

 only being excepted. Hiero, king of Sicily, in the time of the 

 second Punic war, lived almost a hundred years ; a man 

 moderate both in his government and in his life, a worshipper 

 of the gods, and a religious conserver of friendship, liberal, 

 and constantly fortunate. Statilia, descended of a noble 

 family in the days of Claudius, lived ninety-nine years. 

 Clodia, the daughter of Osilius, a hundred and fifteen. 

 Xenophilus, an ancient philosopher, of the sect of Pytha 

 goras, attained to a hundred and six years, remaining 

 healthful and vigorous in his old age, and famous amongst 

 the vulgar for his learning. The islanders of Corcyra were 

 anciently accounted long lived, but now they live after the 

 rate of other men. Hipocrates Cous, the famous physician, 

 lived a hundred and four years, and approved and credited 

 his own art by so long a life ; a man that coupled learning 

 and wisdom together, very conversant in experience and ob 

 servation; one that haunted not after words or methods, 

 but severed the very nerves of science, and so propounded 

 them. Demonax, a philosopher, not only in profession but 

 practice, lived in the days of Adrian almost to a hundred 

 years ; a man of a high mind, and a vanquisher of his own 

 mind, and that truly and without affectation ; a contemner 

 of the world, and yet civil and courteous. When his friends 

 spake to him about his burial, he said, Take no care for my 

 burial, for stench will bury a carcass. They replied, Is it 

 your mind then to be cast out to birds and dogs ? He said 

 again, Seeing in my lifetime I endeavoured to my uttermost 

 to benefit men, what hurt is it if, when I am dead, I benefit 

 beasts? Certain Indian people, called Pandorse, are ex 

 ceedingly long lived, even to no less than two hundred 

 years. They had a thing more marvellous, that having, when 

 they are boys, an air somewhat whitish, in their old age, 

 before their gray hairs, they grow coalblack, though indeed 

 this be every where to be seen, that they which have white 

 li.iir whilst they are boys, in their man s estate change their 

 hairs into a darker colour. The Seres, another people of 



