Pliriies NaturallHiPcorie. 



A tl^horui teltifiethjthat ordinarily the KK. of Arcadia were 300 ycers old ere they died. Atexdmit 

 Cornelius wriceth of one Dando a Sclavonianj that lived 500 yccis.Xemphrj in his treatife of pid 

 a^ejinaketh mention of a king of theLatines, or as romefay50vcr a people upon the (ea coafts,' 

 who condniied alive 600 yceres : and becaufe he had not lied loud enough ali-eady^he goeth on 

 ftill and faith, That his fonne came to 800. All ihefe ftrange reports proceed from the ignorance 

 of the times paft, and for want of knowledge how they made their account : for fome reckoned 

 the fuinmerfor one yeere, and the winter for another. There were againcj that reckoned everic 

 quarter for ayeer, as the ArcadianSjwhofe yeere was but three moneths.te tliall have fome^and 

 namely the ifegyptians^ that count every chaunge or new moonc/or a yeere : and therefore no 

 marveileiffomeofthem are reported to have lived loooyeeres. But topaflefrom thefcuncer- 

 B teinties to things confefled and doubtleffe^ held it is in manner for a certainc truth, that Argan- 

 ihinm king of C alis, reigned full 80 yeeres : and it is fuppofedjthat 40 yecres old he was. when he 

 came firft to the crowne. And as undoubted true it is,that CM^famfa miQ, the crowne 60 yeeres: 

 as alfo that Gorgiasiht Sicilian lived untill hee was 108 yeeres old. As for ^Fabim Mdximus 

 (aRomane) he continued Augure(53 yeeres. ^V.f^rffww^, and oihtcdzizs I. rolupu^ Satur^h 

 ;?«>f,out-lived all thofe Senators who fat in counfell with them when they were Confuls,^: whoiG 

 opinions they were wont to aske.As for Perpema ^when he dicdjleft butj ofihoie Senators alive 

 whom he had cither chofen or re-eledled in his Cenforfhip : & he lived himfclf ^8 yecrs.Wherc 

 by the way one thing commeth unto my mind worth the noting. That one Luftrum or 5 yecres 

 fpace there was^and never but one, in which there died not a Roman Senator : and that was from 

 Q the time that Flaccm and Albitm the Cenforsjfinifhed their furvey and folemnly purged the ci-. 

 tic after the order, unto the comming in of the next new Ccnfors,- which wasfrom the yeere af- 

 ter the foundation of Rome 579. M,VaUnm Corvinm lived 100 yeers complet: between his firfl 

 Confulateand fixCjWere 4^ yeers: he tooke his feat upon theyvorie chairc of eftate,and was cre- 

 ated a magiftrate Gurule 2 1 times ; and no man ever befides him, fo often. ^^7^.7^$ ehe Pontific 

 or foveraigne Prielilived lull as long as he . 



To come now' to women : Z/^'w the wife of RiitiliHi lived ^7 yeers with the better. S^r^/i/ii a 

 noble ladie of Rome. in the time of CUudim the Empcror^was knowne to be $19 ycers of age.C /- 

 ccroes wife Terentia out-lived her husband,untill fhe was 103 yeers old.Clodia wife to Oflit-i^s^xsQni 

 beyond herjand faw 1 1 f yeers^and yet fhe had in her youth i •) children* Lucein a common vice 

 J) in a play/ollowcd the itage and a6led thereupon 1 00 yecres. Such another vice that plaied the 

 foole and made fport betwcene whiles in enterludes^iamcd Gala hi CopioU^ was brought againe 

 toad herfcats upon the (lage,wbcn C;?,P/?w/?f///^ and j^ulpnm wereGonfuls,3tthefolcmne 

 plaies vowed for the health of ylugnsiiisCafar thcEmperour, when flx was in the 104 yeere of 

 her age : the firll time that ever flic entred the flage to fhew proofe of her skill in chat profeffion;, 

 was ^ I yeers before, and then fhe was brouglit thither by M. Pompnim an ^dile of the C om- 

 mons,m the yeere that C.x¥4/-/?^^ andCw. Carbomiz Gonfuls. And once againe Por^feim ih& 

 Great, at the folemne dedication of his ftately Theatre, trained the old woman to the Ibge foK 

 to make a fhew, to the wonder of the world, ^oncovox^Afconius Vadi^riu^ is mine ui3thor,that 

 one SA*?iuk Jived no yeeres ; and therefore I marveile the leffe, that one StephAfjio(\\\\o was the 

 E firll of the long robe that brought up dauncing and footing upon the ftagej plaied his part and 

 daunced in both the Secular plaies,as well thole that were let out by Augu^m late Emperour,as 

 \i\\\c\\CUudiHs C;f/4r exhibited in his 4 GonfulatCjConfidcringthat betweeneihe one and the 

 other therewerebut^7 3 yeeres: and yet lived Sttphdnio many a day after. witnelTeth, 

 thatinTempfis (forfo they call the creft or pitch of thcmountaineTmolus)folkc lived ordina- 

 rily 150 yeeres. At thatage,r.f///W^ of Bononia entred his name into the fubfidiebooke, 

 at the time that cUudnu Cafar held the generall taxe : and that hee was fo old indeed, appeared 

 truly as well upon record in the Regifters office, by conferring and laying togither feverallpai- 

 ' mcnts that he had made from dmc to time, as alfo by certain things that he had feen and known 

 done in his life time(for the Emperor had a fpecial care & regard that way to find out the umhi) 



^ Chap. KL IX. Of the divers Hcrofiopes^or nativiiksofmeit, 



THis point would require the conference and advice of Aflrologcrs:for Epigms faithy 

 that it is not poffible tor a man to live an hundred and two and twentie yeeres : and Bero/fff 

 is ofoplnionjthatone eant^otpafre an hundred and fsvemcenc, The proportion andrec- 



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