New-York daily tribune., 1842-08-05
Long Life.
-, - ~, tfe and Death.

r,,,, Lord Bseon,s history OF Life and Death.
The bong lives OF men mentioned IN hea'heh
,utbors have no great certainty in them; both tor
the ipterizixturc of fables, wnereunto those hnds
of relations were very prone. and tor their iatse
calculation of years. Certainly of the Egyftahs
we find nothing of mernent in those works that
are extan. as touching long life for their Kings
which regned longest did not exceed nifty, af h'e-
sand.ffiy years: which is no great matter seei;iS
many at this day attain to those years. bu, 'fie
Arcadan kings are fabulousy reported 10 nave
liyet. very long. Surely that country was noun
iainous, full Of flock. Of sheep, and brought ior'
most wholesome food, Notwithstanding seem
Pan was their god, we may conceive that al Things
about them were panic aud vain, aho suDJees "
fables.
Scion Of Athens the lawgiver, and one OF the
sexe6 wise men lived above eighty years, me
of high courage, but popular, and affected to MS
country; also learned, given to pleasures, and
soft kind of life. Epimendes, the Crctlan, Is
reported to have lived a hundred and hfty-seyen
wears the matter is mixed with prodigious re-
ation for ffty-seven OF those years he Is said to
have slept in cave Balf an age after, Keno
phon the Colophonian, lived hundred and two
years or rather more; for at the age OF twenty
FIVE years he left his country, seventy-sevsn COM
p!ete wears he travelled, and after that returned
but how long ne lived after mis- return appears not )
q man no less wandering in mind than III oody )
for his name was changed for the madness OF his
opinions, fIom Xenophanes to xenomanes man
no doubt, OF vast concet, and that minded nothing
but infnitum.
Anacreon, the poet, lived eighty years, and some
what better, man lascivous voluPtueus, and gwen
to drink Pndarus. the Thebun, lived TO eighty
wears; poet of high fancy, singular in hls con-
ceits and great adorer of the gods. Sophocles'
tIec q
tragic poet, given entirely to writing ana
neglectfu Of his family.
Georgias, the Sicilian, was hundred ana eight
wears old a rhetorician, and great Doas'er OF
his faculty, one that taught youth for profit he
had seen many countries, and q little before his
death. said tina, he had done nethng worthy OF
blame since he was an old man. Protagoras, OF
Abdera, saw ninety years of age This man was
likewise rhetorician, but protested not so nuch
tosteach the liberal arts, as the art OF governing
commonweaths and states; notwithstanding he
was great wanderer in the world no less than
Georsias Isocrates, the Athenian, lived ninety
eight wears he was rhetorician also, but an ex-
ceedipg modest man, one that summed tie public
light, and opened his school only in his own house
Demooritus, of Abdera reached to hundred and
nine years he great philosopher, and, II
ever any man amongst the Grecians, true natur-
alst, u surveyor of many countries but much more
of nature also diligent searcher into expert
1nents, and Gas Aristotle objected against hlm) one
that followed sin,ilitudes more than the love OF
arguments. Diogenes, the Sinopean, lived rine,y
years a man that used liberty over others, but iy-
yanized over himself, coarse diet, and OF much
epa,ience. Zeno. of Citium, lacked about two
wears of a hundred; man of high mind, and
contemner of other mems opinions; also OF great
acuteness, but vet ,roublesomr, choosing rather
to take mems minds than to enforce them. Inc
like whereof afterwards was In Seneca flato
the Athenian, attained to eighty-one years a man
of good courage, but yet lover OF ease. IN MS
notions sublime and of fancy, neat and deicate
in his life, rather calm than merry and one that
carried kind Of majesty in his countenancc.
TIE year of our Lord seventy-six, falling into
the time Of Vespasian, is memorable; IN which
we shall fnd as it were, calendar OF long-llved
men; for that year there was taxing: (now
taxing IS the most authentcal and truest ntorme'
touching the ages Of men) and in that part of lta
", which lieth between the Appenine mountains
and the river Pc, there were found hundred and
four and-:wenty persons that either equaed or eX-
ceeded hundred years of age; namely, OF a hlin-
dred years. Just 6fty-four persons; OF hundred
and ten, ifty-seven persons OF hundred ana lve-
and-twenty, two only; of a hundred and thirty,
four men of hundred and fvc-and-thirty, "t
seven.y.aud-th:rty, four more; of hundred and
forty, three men. Besides these, Parma, in par
ticuar afforded FIVE, whereof three fulfilled hun,
dred and twenty years, and two hundred and
thirty Brussels afforded one of hundred and
twenty-five years old. Placentia one, aged one
hundred thirty-and. Faventia one woman,
aged one hundred thirty-aad-two. A certain town
then called Yel!eiatium, situate in the hills about
Placentia afforded ten, whereof six fulfilled han
dred and ten years of age, four hundred and
twenty. Lastly, Rimni, one of II hundred and
fifty gears, whose name was Marcus APonius.
That our catalogue might not be extended too
much in length, we have thought fit, as we'll IN
those whom we have rehearscd as in those whom
we shall rehearse, offer under eighty years
of age Now we have affixed to every one true
and shor. character or elogy; but of that sor1
whereunto, in our judgement, length OF life (Which
is not little subject in the manners aud fortunes
Of men) hath some relation, and that IN twotold
respect either that such kind Of men are tor the
most part long livev. that such men may some
times be of long life, though otherwise not we'll
disposed forit.
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