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The Bifry of Life and Deaths 
Spain lived an, hundred and thirty, or (as fome would have it } an | hundrediand for- 
ty years, of which he reigned cighty. Concerning his Manners,. Inftitution of his 
ife, and the time wherein he reigned, there isa general filence, Cyptras King of 
Cyprus, living in the /fland then termed the. Happy and Pleafant Sfland,.is afitmed 
to have attained to an hundred and fifty or fixty years. . Two Latin Kangs in ttaly, 
the!Father and the Son, are reported to have lived, the ore eight hundred, the other 
fix hundred years: but this is delivered unto us by certain Pyilologsts, whothough 
otherwife credulous enough, yet themfelyes have fufpected the truth of this matter, 
or rather condemned it. © Others record fome Arcadian Kings to. have livedthree hun- 
| dredyears: the Country, no doubt, is a place apt for long life; but the Relation 
T fufpeG to be fabulous. They tell of one Dando in Ilyrinm, that lived without the 
| inconveniences of old age to five hundred years. They tell-alfo.of the Epéans, a part 
| of Atoka, that the whole Nation of them were exceeding long liv’d, infomuch 
that many of them were two hundred years old; and that,one. principal manamongi{t 
them, nathed / itorivs, aman of a Giant-like. f{tature, could-have told three hundred 
years. It is recorded, that on the top of the Mountain: Timolws, ancicutly called 
Tempfis, many of the Inhabitants lived to an hundred and fifty years. We.read that 
the Seé# of the Effeans amongft the fews did ufually extend their life to an hundred 
| years : Now that Seé# ufeda fingle or abftemious diet, after the rule of Pythagoras. 
Apollonius Tyaneus excecded.an hundred years... his face bewraying no. fuch ages 
he was an admitable man, of the Heathens reputed tohave fomethiag Divine in. him, 
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wilh that 1 were deaf allo, when I hear you [peak to fuch difvonourable Treaties. Marcus 
_| Perpenna lived ninety cight ycars, furviving all tho:e whofe Suffrages he had gather- 
| ed in the Senate-honfe, being  onfal, I mcan, all the Senators at that time; as.al- 
fo all thofe whom a little after, being (onf#/, he chofe into the Senate, feven-onely 
being excepted. Hero King of Sicély, in the time of the fecond Punich war, lived 
almoft an hundred years; a man moderate both in his Government and in his Life ; 
_a worlhiper of the gods, aud a religious conferyer of Friendfhip : liberal, and con- 
ftantly fortunate. Starilia, defcended of .a noble Family inthe days of Claudius, 
lived ninety nine years. cfodia, the daughter of Offlivs, an hundred and fifteen.:. .Xe- 
ncpilus, an ancient Philofopher, of the Se& of ‘Pythagoras, attained. to an huncfed. 
and fix yeats, remaining healthful and vigorous in his old age, and famous amongft 
the vulgar for his learning, The //landers of Corcyra were anciently. accounted 
long liv’d, but now they ie after the rate of other men, Hipocrares Cows; the fa- 
mous Phyfczan, lived an hundred and four years, and approved and credited his own. 
Art by fo long a life : a man that coupled Learning and Wifdom together, very 
converfant in Expetience and Obfervation; one that haunted not after Words or 
Mcthods, but fevered the very Nerves of Science, and fo propounded them. Dezo- 
nax aPhilofopcr, not onely in Profefhon but Practice, lived inthe dayes of Adrian al- | 
moft to an hundred years: a man of an high mind, and. a yanquither of his own} 
mind, and that truly and without affeGation ; a contemner of the world, and yet 
civil and courteous. When his’friends fpake to him abont his Burial ; he. faid, 
Take no care for my Burial, for Stench will bury a Carcafe. They replied, ds st yaxer:' 
a - > i" Bs" | mind 
| his extream old age he was brought in a Litter into the’ Senate-honfes and yehe-) 
jmently diflwaded the Peace with Pyrrhws: the beginning of his Oration was very } 
»memorable, fhewing an invincible fpirit and ffrength of mind; 1 have with great,| 
grief of mind ( Fathers confeript) thefe many years bora my.blindneli, but now Jcould, 
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