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Spaine, lived an hundred and thirty ; Or, (as fome would have it,)an hundred and for- 

 ty yearcs ; Of which he reigned eighty. Concerning Ins Manners , Inftitution of his 

 Life, and the time wherein he reigned , there is a general Silence. Cyniras^ King of 

 Cyprus, Living in the Ifland , then termed the Happy and Pleafant IJland,\S affir- 

 med to have attained to an hundred and fifty,or fixcy yeares. Two hatine Kings in Ita- 

 ly, the Father, and the Sonnc r :re reported to have livcd,the one eight hufcdred^the other 

 fix hundred years : But this is delivered unto us by certaine Philologifls ; Who though 

 otherwifc credulous enough ; yet then-ifclves have fufpected the Truth of this Matter, 

 or rather cond/mned it. Other:", record fome Arcadian Kings to have lived three hun-' 

 dred years • The countrey, no doubr,is a place apt for long lite ; But the Relation I ful- 

 pect to be fabulous. They tell of one Dando, in Illyrium - That lived, without the 

 Inconvenienci -s of old Age, to Fve hundred yeares. They tell alfo of the Epians, a Part 

 of is£,to/ia ; That the whole Nation of them were exceeding long hv'd ; Iniomuch, 

 that many of them were two hundred yeares old: And that one principal Man amongft 

 them named Litoruu , a Man of a Giant-like Stature , could have told three hundred 

 yeares. I; is recorded that in the top of the Mounraine Tmolus-, anciently called Temp- 

 os i many of the Inhaoitants lived to an hundred and fifty yeares. We read that the SeSt 

 of the EJfcans, amongft the Jews , didufually extend their Life to an hundred yeares 

 Now that Sell ufed a finale, or. Abftcmious Diet; After the Rule of Pythagoras. 

 KylloniusTyanepu exceeded an hundred yeares ; His Face bewraying noliichAge; 

 He was an admirable Man ; Of the Heathens reputed co have fomething Divine in him; 

 Of the Chrifiians, held for a Sorcerer; In his Die; Tythagorical ; A great Traveller; 

 Much Renowned ; And by Tome adored as a God : Notwithstanding, towards the end 

 of his Iife,he was fubjecl: to many Complaints againft him, and Reproaches ; All which 

 he made ihift to efcapq. But left his long Life fhould be imputed to his Py thagoncaii 

 Diet ; and not rather that it was Hereditary , his Grand-father before him , lived an 

 hundred and rhiiry yeares. It is undoubted, that Q^umtus Metellus lived above an hun- 

 dred yeares; And that after feveral Confulfhips happily adminiftied ; In his old Age he 

 was mad: Pontifex Maximw ; A id exercifed thole Holy Duties full two and twentie' 

 yeares ; in the performance of which Rites,his Voice never failed , nor his hand trem- 

 bled. Itis molt certaine,that A} piust&cus was very old,but his yeares are not extant; 

 The moft part whereof he patfed , a^erhe was Blind; Yet this Misfortune no whit 

 foftned him , but that he was aole to g^vem a numerous Family , a great Retinue, and 

 Depcndance, yea, even r .h: Comrnon-weakh it f.lfe , with great S'.outrseiTe. In his ex- 

 trcame old oge, he WjS broiight in a Litter tn>- the Senate-houfe ; and vehemently dif— 

 fwaded the Peace with Tyrrhtts.1 The beginning of his Oration was very Memorable, 

 fhew ing an Invincible Spirited f^rergTi yi WiwdjJ have, with great grief e of Mind, 

 {Fathers Confcriptf) rhefe many yeares borne my Blindncffe; bat now I could wifhthat 

 I were i)safe alfo : when 1 hear you fpeakjo fuch dishonourable Treaties. (JMarcus 

 Perpenna lived ninety eight years ; Surviving all thofe , whole Suffrages he had gathe- 

 red, in .the Smate-Houfe^ being Conful ; I mean, all the Senatort at that time : As al- 

 io all thole wh im a little after,being Conful, he chofe into the Senate ; Seven onely be- 

 ing excepted. Hiero y King of Sicily in the time of the lecond PunickjYArre, Lived al- 

 moflan hundred yeares ; A mm M )derate, both in his Government , and in his Life : 

 A Worfliipper of the Godsend a Religious conferver of Friend fhip ; Liberal, and con- 

 ftantly Fortunate, eTftfr/'/^.defcended of a Noble Family,in the dayes oiClaudim, lived 

 ninety nine yearcs. C India, the Daughter of O films , an hundred and fifteen. Xeno- 

 philus^aa Ancient Philofopher, of the Se& of Pythagoras, attained to an hundred and 

 fix yeares: Remaining heakhfull, and vigorous in his old Age ; And famous amongft 

 the Vulgar, for his Learning. The //landers of Corcjra , were anciently accounted 

 Long liv'tf; But now they live after the rate of other Mcn.Hjpocrates Cous y the Famous 

 Phyfician, lived an hundred and four years; And approvcd,and credited his own Art, 

 by lb long a life : A Man, that coupled learning and wifdome together ; Very con- 

 verfant in Experience and Obfervatien : One that hunted not after Words or Methods:' 

 But fevered the very Nerves of Science, and fo propounded them. Demonax^ Philofo- 

 pher, not oney in ProfeiTioia , but Practice, lived in die dayes of Adrian,z\mo{\ to an 

 Hundred yeares: A Man of an high Muide,and a Vanquisher of his own Minde; And 

 that, truly, and without Afredtation ; A Contemner ot the World , and yet Civil and 

 Courteous : When his Friends fpake to him, about his Burial, he faid; Take 

 no Care for my Burial ; For Stench will bur j a Carkafc: They replyed ; Is it your 



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