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Countries, and a little before his death faid, That he had done nothing wort 
blame fince he was an old man. Protagoras of -sb@era {a . ninety yeats of age: this 
man waslikewifea Rheterician, but profeffed notfo much to teach the Liberal Arts, as | 
the Art df Governing Common-wealths and States: notwithftanding he wasagreat 
wanderer in the world, no lefs than Gorgias. J/ocrates the _Athenian lived ninety } 
eight years: he was a Rhetorician alfo, but an exceeding modeft man; one that 
fhunned the publick light, and opened his School onely in his own houfe. Democritus }- 
of -dbdera reached to an hundred and nine years: he was a gteat Philofopher, and; if | 
ever any man amongft the Greczans, a true Natural? ; a Surveyor of ‘many Coun- | 
tries, but muchmore of Nature ; alfo a diligent fearcher into Experiments, and (as { 
Ariftotle objected againft him ) one that followed Similitudes more thar the Laws of | 
Arguments. Dzogenes the Simopean lived ninety years : a man that ufed liberty to- 
wards others, but tyranny over*himfelf : a courfe diet, and of much patience. | Zezo } 
of Citivm lacked but two years of an hundred : a man of an high’mind, and a | 
contemner of other mens opinions ; alfo of a great acutenefs, butyet nottrouble- | 
fome,chufing rather to take mens minds than to enforce them’: The like whereof after- | 
ward wasin Seneca. Plato the Athenian attained to cighty one years: a man of a great 
courage, but yet a lover of eafe; in his Notions fublimed, and of a fancy, neat and 
delicate in his life, rather calm than merry, arid one that carried a kind of Majelty 
in his countenance. ‘Theophraftus the Ereffian arrived at cig’ ty five years of ages |’. 
man {weet for his eloquence, {weet for the variety of his matters, and who felegted } 
the pleafant things of Philofophy, ‘and let the bitter and harfh go. carmeades of Cy- 
rene 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 pleafant variety of his knowledge de- 
lighted both himfelf and others. But Orbzlius, vho lived in Cicero's time, no Phile- 
Sopher ox Rhetorscian, but a Grammartan, attained to an hundred years of age, he was | 
firfta Souldier, then aSchoolmafter; aman by nature tart both in his Tongue andPen, 
and fevere towards his Scholars. ‘ ii nce 
12. Quintus Fabius Maximus was Augur fixty three yeats, which fhewed him to be 
above eighty years of age at his death; though it betrue, that inthee4ugurfhip No- 
bility was more refpected then age : a wife man, and a great Delsberator, andinall | 
his proceedings moderate, and not without affability fevere. A/a/iniffa King of Nz 
midva livedninety years, and being more than eighty five got a fon : a daring man, and 
trufting upon his fortune, who in his youth had tafted of the inconftancy of Fortune, 
but ‘in his fucceeding age was conftantly happy. But A4arews Porsius Cato lived above 
ninety years of age: aman of anIron body and mind; he had a bittertongue,and loved 
o to cherifh factions; he was given to Husbandry, and was to himfelf and his Family a } 
= Phy fician, ae oe : ath | , 
1, Terentia Cxcero’s wife, lived an hundred and three years : a woman afflicted with 
many. creffes ; firft, with the banifhment of her Husband; then withthe difference 
betwixt them ; laftly, with his laft fatal misfortume : She was alfoeftentimesvexed | 
with the Gout, Luceéa mult needs exceed an hundred by many years ; for it is faid | — 
that fhe acted an whole hundred years upon the Stage, at firft perhaps reprefenting } 
the perfon of fome young Girl, at laft of fome decrepit old Woman. But Galeria | — 
Copiola, a Player alfo and a Dancer, was brought upon the Stage asa Novice, in what | — 
year of her age is not known; but ninety mine years after, atthe Dedscation | 
of the vheatre by Pompey the Great, fhe was {hewn upon the Stage, not now | — 
for an Adtrefs, but for a Wonder : neither was this all, for after that, in the So- } 
| lemenities for the health and life of eAugnftus ; fhe was fhewn upon the Stage the | ~ 
third time. TES ON 
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14, There was another e4éfre/s, fomewhat inferiour in age, but much fuperiour in 
| dignity, which lived well-near ninety years, I mean Levsa falta etngufta, wife to | 
| Augufius Cafar, and mother to Tsberzws. For if e4uguftus his life werea Play, (as { 
himfelf would have’ it, whenas upon his death-bed he charged his friends they 7 
fhould give him a ‘Plandite after he was dead) certainly this Lady was an excellent | 
Aétrefi, who could carry it fo well with her husband by a diflembled obedience, | 
| and with her fon by power and authority : a woman affable, and yet of a Ma | 
| tronal carriage, pragmatical, and upholding her power. But Jamia, the wife of Casme | 
| Caffius , and filter of Afarcus Brutus, was alfo ninety years old ; for fle furvived } 
the Philippick Battel fixty four years : a magnanimous woman , in her se wea ho 
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