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106; while Solon, Thales, Pittacus, and other 

 sages, lived to the age of 100 and upwards. We 

 are also informed by Lord Bacon, that during the 

 reign of Vespasian, in the year 76, when the 

 ages of the Roman people were registered, it was 

 found that in the country between the river Po 

 and the base of the Appenines, there were 124 

 individuals who had arrived at 100 years and 

 upwards, fifty-seven of whom were 110; four 

 who were 130, and three, 140, that in the 

 hilly country around Placentia, there were six 

 individuals aged 110; four who were 120; one 

 woman 132 ; and one man, Marcus Aponius of 

 Rimini, 150. (Life and Death.) 



Bacon also enumerates several individuals who 

 had arrived at the age of 100 and upwards in the 

 city of Rome, among whom were Orbilius, Me- 

 tellus, Clodia, Terrentia the wife of Cicero, Lu- 

 ceia, and Galeria, while Statilia lived to the 

 age of 99, and Livia, the wife of Augustus, to 90. 

 But, although the clergy of Europe as a class are 

 long livers, Bacon says that among 241 Popes of 

 Rome before his time, only five had arrived at 

 the age of 80. 



It is therefore probable, that during the high 

 and palmy days of that great city, when supplied 

 with an abundance of pure water, public baths, 

 (at about a farthing for the poor,) and admirable 

 sewers for carrying off filth, it was more healthy 

 than during the reign of the Popes. The marshy 

 districts around were also drained by Julius Caesar 



