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EXAMPLES OF GREAT AGE.

From Forthcoming work on "1he Art Of Pro-
longing Life" by Ticknor, Reed & Fields, of Bos-
ton, are permitted TO publish the following ex-
tracts:
Epimenidcs Of Crete is said to have lived l57
years. The poet Anacrcon so fond of mirh and
ioity, lived 10 the age of so as did also Sopho-
clcs and piudar. Gcorgias of Lcontium, great
orator, u ran who had Travelled much, and who
spent great deal Of his time in the company Of
young people. and in giving them instruction. pro-
longcd his life to the age of los years. Protngcros
of Ablcra, an orator and traveller also, lived 90;
and Isocrates. man of great temperance and mol
csty, lived 9S. Dcmocritus, the friend and search
er Of Nature, man also Of good temper and Sc
rene mind, lived 100 years. and the frugal but
sloyenly Dogcnes 90. Icno, the founder of the
Stocal sect and master in the art Of seli-dcnial,
attained nearly 10 the age If 100 years and Plato.
one of the most divine gcnuscs that ever existed,
and friend to rest and calm meditation, TO that OF
81. PythagOras, who in his doctrine recommended
n good regime, moderation uf the passions, and the
gymnastc exercises, became also very old lie
used 10 divide the life Of maj into four equal parts
From the first to the twentieth year he called him
a child, man begun; from the twentieth to the
lortcth, young man from ;hc forticlh TO the six
tieth mlu from the siXtieth to the eightieth, an
old or declining mln; and after this period he rec
oncd him no mole among the living, let him live to
i whatever age he might.
i Among the Romans the following instances de
serve 20 be rcmarkcd
NJ. Nalcgius man of great bodness and cour
age, extremely popular, aud always fortunate, wa
above the age Of 100. Orbilius the celebrated Or
bilius, first soldier and then pedaSoguc, bu
who always exercised military severity, attlEcC
in this kind of life TO the age Of above 100 years
How far lIcrmippus, the instructor of young maids
. carried his life have seen before. Fubius, wei
Q known on account Of his delay showed, by nm ag'
of 90 years, that something may he gained ever
5 from death by the same means. And Cato tina
man with an iron body and iron mind. fond Of
country life, and an enemy to physicians, lived t
. the age Of above 90.
O We have liEcwse remarkable instances of tn
/ longevity Of Roman ladies, Tercntia, the wife o
Cicero, Notwithstanding her many msfortunes
cares aud the gout, with which she was tormentcd
lived to the age OF l03. And Liyia. the wife 0
u Augustus an imperious, passionate, but fortunate
; woman attained to that Of 90.
1t is particularly worthy Of remark. that seycra
instances occur Of Roman actresses who becam
old an advantage which they have now uniorun
atcy lost and which seems to show that more vita
consumption is connected with their occupation a
present than formerly One Luceia, who came OF
the stage very young, performed whole century
and even made her appearance publicly when i
her ll2th year. Galeria Cupioa, an actress an
dancer also, was 90 years old when she first pei
formed in the theatre; and she was again brough
forward as n wonder, in order to compliment Pom
n pey. But this even not the last time of he
actng-ior she appeared once more to show her rC
spect for AUGUSTUS.
A very valuable collection in regard to the durc
ton Of life in the time of the Emperor Vespasiar
has beOn preserved to 10y Pliny, from the record
Of the census source perfectly sure and worth
of credit. 1t there appears, that in the year whe
tina. numbering Of the people took place the sever
ty-sixlh of era there were living in that part
Italy which lies between the Apprentices and the p,
n, only l24 men who had attained the age of IL
n and upwards, namely, ify-iour Of 100 ffty-seye
": of no. two of l25 four of 1870 four of from I35
H. 1871, and three of $50, Besides these, there wei
e, in Parma five men, three of whom were 100. an
he two l30 in Paccnta, one Of 1870; at Fayentia
woman Of l32 and in Velleacium, small tow
near Pacenta there lived ten persons six Of whol
a, had attained to the age Of ll0 and four to that
b" 100