7 he Hiftory of Life and Death. 



Countries; And a little before his Death laid , That he had done nothing worthy of 

 blame, fince he was an old Man. Protagoras of Abdera, fa w Ninety yearesof Age; 

 ThisMan was hkewife zRhetorician&wx. profefled not fo much to teach the Liberal Arts, 

 as the Art of Governing Common-wealths, and States : Notwithftanding , he was a 

 sreat Wanderer in the World 3 no lcfle than Gorgias. Ifocrates, the Athenian, lived 

 Ninety eight yeares: He was a Rhetorician z\io , but an exceeding mcdeft Man, One 

 that fnunned the Publike Light ; and opened his Schoole only in his owne Houfe. De- 

 mocritus of Abdera , reached to an hundred and nine yeares ; He was a great Philo- 

 pher ; And,if ever any Man amongft the Grecians, a true Naturals : A Surrey our of 

 many Countries, but much naore of Nature; alio a diligent fearcherinto Experiments; 

 and (as Arifiotle objected againft him.) One that followed Similitudes, more than the 

 Laws of Arguments. 'Diogenes the Sinopean , lived ninety yeares : A Man, that ufed 

 Liberty towards others , but Tyranny over Himfelfe ; of a courfe Diet , and of much 

 Patience. Zeno of Qtium , lacked but two yeares of an Hundred : A man of an high 

 Minde,a 'd a Contemner of other mens opinions ; alfo of a great Acuteneffe , but yet 

 not troublelome , choofmg rather to take Mens Minds, then to enforce them : The like 

 whe reof afterward was in Seneca. Plato the Athenian, attained to eighty one yeares ; a 

 ManofagreatConrage, but yet a Lover nf'Eale; In his Notions Sublimed, and a 

 of Fancie; Neat and Delicate in his Life ; Rather calme, than Merry ; and one , that 

 carried akindeof Majeflie in his Countenance. Theophra^ut the Etefian, arivedat 

 85 yeares of Age; A Mm fweet for his eloquence,fweet for the Variety of his Matters; 

 and Who fele&ed the pleafant Things of Philofophy ; and let the Bitter andHarfh 

 gee. Carneodes of Cyrene many yeares after, came to the like age, of eighty five yeares: 

 A Man of a fluent Eloquence ; and one, who by the acceptable , and pleafant Varietie 

 of his Knowledge, delighted, both himfelfe , and others. But Orb/lim, who lived in 

 Cicero's time ; No Phtlofophtr, or Rhetorician ; But a Grammarian ; Attained to an 

 hundcrd yeares of Age : He was firft a Souldier , then a School-mafter ; A Man by 

 nature tart,both in his Tongue, and Pen;and fever e towards his Scholars. 



Quint us Fabius UMaximtts, was Augur fixty three yeares, which fhewed him to be 

 above eighty yeares of age, at his Death, Though it be true , that in the Augurjhip^o- 

 bility was more relpeftcd, than age. A wife Man, andzovaiDelibtrator, and in all 

 his proceedings Moderate, and not without Affability fevere. Mapnijfa^ King of Nh- 

 midia y lived ninety yeares ; And being more than eighty five, got a Sonne : a Daring 

 Man, and trolling upon his Fortune; who'in his youth , hadtalied of the Ineonftancy 

 of Fortune; But in his fucceeding age , was conltantly happy. But Marcus Porcius 

 Cato, lived above ninety yearesof Age: a man ©fan Iron body and minde; He had a bit- 

 ter Tongue, and loved to cherifh factions: He was given to Husbandry ; and was to 

 Himfelre,and his Family,a Phyfician. 



Terentia, ficero'svttfc, lived an hundred and three yeares : a woman afflicted with 

 many Crolfes ; Firft, wirh the Banifhment of her Husband ; Then with the Difference 

 betwixt them ; Laftly, with his lalt Fatal Misfortune ; She was alfo oftentimes vexed 

 with the Gout. Luceia muft needs exceed an hundred, by many yeares ; For it is faid, 

 That fhe a£ted,an whole hhndred yeares, upon the $age ; at firlt, peihaps,reprefentirtg 

 the perfon ofiome young Girlc ; at laft , of fome Decrepit eld Woman. But Galeria 

 Coyiola, A Player a4fo,and a Dander , was brought upon the Stage as a Noyice, in what 

 yeare of her Age , is not known , but ninety nine yeares after , at the Dedication 

 of the Theater , by Tom fey the Great, fhe was fhewn upon the Stage ; Not now 

 j foran AvSrelTe, but for a wonder ; Neither was this all, forafter that », io the Soiem- 

 1 nities . for the Health and Life of Auguftns , fhe was fhewn upon the Stage the third 

 j time. 



There was another Attrefe, fonuwhat Liferiour in age, but much Superiour in 

 Digniry, which lived well-neare ninety years* : I rne a ne Ltvta Julia Augufta,mie to 

 Auguftus fxfar, and Mother to Tiberius. For if hugufius his Life were a play ; (as 

 himftPe would have it: when as upon hit Death-bed, he charged his Friends, they 

 fhould give him a Plauditt, after he was Dead, ) certainly this Lady was an excellent 

 Attrefe; who would carry it fo well with her Husband, by a diffembled Obedience; 

 and with her Sonne, by power an J authorise .• a woman affable , and yet of a Matro- 

 nal Carriage, Pragmatical , and up-holding her power. But funia, the wife of Caius 

 > Caffiui, and lifter of Marcus 'Brutus , was alfo ninety yeares old , For fhe furvived 

 the PhilippictBattaile,fary four yeares j a Magnanimous woman; In her great wealch 



Happy,- 



