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when one hundred years old, and Galeria Copiola returned to 

 the stage, to perform in the interludes,** at the votive games 

 which were celehrated for the health of the deified Augustus, in 

 the consulship of C. Poppseus and Q. Sulpicius.'* She had 

 made her first appearance when eight years of age, just ninety- 

 one years before that time, when M. Pomponius was sedUe of 

 the people, in the consulship of C. Marius and Cn. Carbo." When 

 Pompeius Magnus dedicated his great theatre, he brought her 

 upon the stage, as being quite a wonder, considering her old 

 age. Asconius Pedianus informs us, that Sammida also lived 

 one hundred and ten years. I consider it less wonderful that 

 Stephanie, who was the first to dance on the stage in comedy 

 descriptive of Eoman manners, should have** danced at the 

 two secular games, those celebrated by the deified Au- 

 gustus, and by Claudius Csesar, in his fourth consulship, consi- 

 dering that the interval that elapsed between them was no more 

 than sixty-three years ;*' indeed, he lived a considerable time 

 after the last period. We are informed by Mutianus, that, on 

 the peak of Mount Tmolus, which is called Tempsis, the people 

 live, one hundred and fifty years, and that T, Pullonius, of 

 Bononia, was set down as of the same age, in the registration 

 which took place imder the censorship of Claudius Caesar ; and 

 this appeared to be confirmed by comparing the present with 

 former registrations, as well as many other proofs that he 

 had been alive at certain periods — ^for that prince greatly in- 

 terested himself in ascertaining the exact truth of the matter. 



CHAP. 50. (49.) THE VABXETT OF DDSIINrES AT THE BERTH OF 



MAST. 



The present conjuncture would appear to demand from me 



'* " Emljoliaria," an actress in tlie " embolium," or interlude of the 

 Boman stage ; ako called " acroama," by Cicero. It appears to have been 

 a concert o? musical instruments, perhiips accompanied by dancing. 



^ Their consulship was a.u.o. 761. — B. 



" Their consulship was A.ir.c. 671, which would leave an interval of 

 ninety years between her first appearance and her appearance at the votive 

 games. — B. 



58 " Togatns saltare instituit." He acted in the " togatae fabulse,'' co- 

 medies representing Eoman life, or the life of those who wore the to^a, the 

 civic costume of the Romans. The Greek comedies were called " paUiatse." 



" The secular games of Augustus are stated by Suetonius, in his Life 

 of Augustus, c. 31, and by Dion Cassius, to have taken place A.v.o. 

 739.— B. 



