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PLINT's natural niSTOllY. 
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eight.^''' Quintus Fabius Maximus was an augur for sixty- 
three years.^^ M. Perperna, and more recently, L. Yolusius 
Saturninus, survived all those whose suffrages each had solicited 
on the occasion of his consulship Perperna lived ninety- 
eight years, and left after him only seven of those whose 
names, when censor, he had enrolled. Connected with this 
fact, it also suggests itself, and deserves to be remarked, that 
it has happened only once, that five successive years have 
ever passed without the death of a senator taking place ; this 
was the case from the occasion on which the censors Placcus 
and Albinus performed the lustration, in the year of the City 
579, until the time of the succeeding censors.^^ M. Yalerius 
Corvinus completed one hundred j^ears, forty-six' of which in- 
tervened between his first and sixth consulship. He occupied 
the curule chair twenty- one times, a thing that was never 
the case with any one besides. The pontiff Metellus also at- 
tained the same age.^^ 
Among women also, Livia, the wife of Putilius, exceeded 
her ninety-sixth year ; during the reign of Claudius, Statilia, 
a member of a noble family, died at the age of ninety-nine ; 
Terentia, the wife of Cicero, lived one hundred and three 
years, and Clodia, the wife of Ofilius, one hundred and fifteen ; 
she had fifteen children.^^ 
Lucceia, an actress in the mimes, performed on the stage 
^"^ We have an account of Gorgias in Cicero, de Senect. sec. 9 ; in Vale- 
rius Maximus, B. viii. c. 13, and in Lucian. — B. 
^® Valerius Maximus, ubi supra, reduces this to sixty-two years. — B. 
We have the same statement respecting Peperna in V alerius Maximus, 
but he does not mention his age. — B. 
^0 The names of the succeeding censors were C. Claudius Pulcher, and 
T. Sempronius Gracchus. 
V. Maximus gives the same account of the age of Corvinus, hut he states 
the interval between his consulships to have been forty-seven years. Ac- 
cording to the Fasti, in Dr. Smith's Dictionary/ of Antiquities, the interval 
was forty-eight years, from a.tj.c. 406 to a.u.c. 455. — B. 
^2 The honour of the curule-chair — " sella curulis." It was attached to 
the offices of consul, praetor, and ffidile ; Corvinus had, therefore, been 
elected to one or other of these offices twenty-one times, — B. 
Valerius Maximus gives the same account of Metellus. He also in- 
forms us that Metellus, although of an advanced age when created pontiff, 
held the office for twenty-two years ; so also Cicero, de Senect. sec. 9. — B. 
We have the same account of these females in Valerius Maximus. 
He adds, that Clodia survived all her children; Seueca, Epist. 77, also refers 
to the great age of Statilia. — B. 
