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Gorgias the Sicilian lived 108 Years. Q. Fabius Maximus 

 continued Augur for 63 Years. M. Perpenna, and of late, 

 L. Volusius Saturninus, out-lived all those Senators who 

 had sat in Council with them when they were Consuls. 

 Perpenna left but seven of those Senators alive whom he 

 had chosen in his Censorship ; and he lived himself 98 

 Years. Where, by the way, one thing cometh to my Mind 

 worth the noting : that there was one Space of five Years, 

 and never but one, in which not one Senator died ; and that 

 was from the time that Flaccus and Albinus the Censors 

 finished their Lustrum, to the coming in of the next Censors ; 

 which was from the Year after the Foundation of the City, 

 579. M. Valerius Corvinus lived 100 Years complete; and 

 between his first Consulate and his sixth, were 46 Years. 

 He took his Seat on the Curule Chair 21 Times ; and no 

 Man ever besides him so often. Metellus the Pontifex lived 

 full as long as he. 



To come now to Women : Lima the Wife of Rutilius 

 lived more than 97 Years. Statilia, a noble Lady, in the 

 Time of Claudius the Prince, was 99 Years of Age : Cicero's 

 Wife, Terentia, was 103 Years old : Clodia, Wife to Osilius, 

 saw 1 15 Years ; and she had 15 Children. Luceia, a Comic 

 Actress, appeared on the Stage for 100 Years. Galeria 

 Copiola, a Mimic Actress, was brought again upon the 

 Stage when Cn. Pompeius and Q. Sulpitius were Consuls, at 

 the solemn Plays vowed for the Health of Divus Augustus, 

 when she was in the 1 04th Year of her Age : the first Time 

 that she entered on the Stage was 91 Years before, when 

 she was brought thither by M. Pomponius, ^Edile of the 

 Commons, in the Year that C. Marius and Cn. Carbo were 

 Consuls ; and once again Pompey the Great, at the dedica- 

 tion of his great Theatre, returned the old Woman to the 

 Stage for the wonder of the thing. Also Asconius Peedi- 

 anus writeth, that Samula lived 110 Years; and therefore I 

 wonder the less that Stephanie (who was the first of the 

 Long Robe who appointed Dancing) danced in both the 

 Secular Games, as well those that were set out by Divus 

 Augustus, as those which Claudius Ccesar exhibited in his 



