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Article AN HISTORICAL ESSAY ON LONGEVITY. ← Page 2 of 3 →
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An Historical Essay On Longevity.
Moses lived to the age ofizo , but it is remarkable that ) je makes a comp laint that the age of man was but three-score years and ten , or , at most , four-score years . The warlike Joshua lived to be no . Eli , the hig h priest , was only 90 at his death , but Elisha lived to be much above 100 . In the latter period of the Jewish church , we find Simeon , a man full of hope
and confidence , distinguished by a life of 90 years . Among the Greeks we meet with several instances of longevity—The * sage Solon arrived to the age of 80 . Epimenides is said to have lived 1 . 57 years . Anacreon , though an intemperate man , was . choaked atthe age of 80 . to which period lived also Sophocles and Pindar . Gorgias , the orator of Leontium , prolonged his days to the Isocrates
term of 108 years . Protagoras , of Abdera , to 90 ; and lived 9 8 . Democritus , the pleasant philosopher , lived iogyearsj and the churlish Diogenes 90 . Zeno , the founder of the ' Stoics , arrived to the age of 100 ; but Plato only to that of 8 r . Pythagoras ^ who was remarkably abstemious , lived to be very old . ' He was wont to divide the life of man into four equal . parts . From the first to the
age of twenty , ' he called him but a man begun ; from forty to sixty a man ; from thence' to eighty , an old or declining man ;' after v . hich he accounted him as dead , let him live as long as he would .. Among the Romans we may reckon the following : —M . Valerius Corvinus , a very valiant , man , and exceedingly popular , was above the age of 100 . Orbilius , first a soldier and then a severe '
schoolmaster , attained to the same age . Fabius and Cato were both above 90 years old when they died . We have , moreover , remarkable instances of longevity among the Roman ladies . Terentia , the ' wife of Cicero , lived to the age of 103 . It is singular that several of the Roman actresses attained to a very old age . One Luceia , who entered on the theatre very young , performed a whole century , and made a public appearance atthe age of 112 . Galeria Copiolaan
, actress and dancer , was 90 when she first performed , and she afterwards was broughtforvvards as a prodigy , for the purpose of complimenting Pompey . But even this was not the last time of her acting , for she appeared once more to shew respect to Augustus . In the Census , as preserved by Pliny , we find , that on numbering the peole in the 7 6 th year of the Christian ariathere were living in that
p , part of Italy which lies between the Appenines and the Po , only 12 { . men who had attained to the age cf 100 years and upwards , viz . fiftyfour of 100 , fifty-seven of no , two of 125 , four of 130 , four of from 135 to 137 , and three of 140 . Besides these , there were in Parma five men , three of whom were 120 , and two 130 ; in Placentia , one of 130 ; at Faventia , a woman of 132 ; and in Villejacium , a small
town near Placentia , there were ten persons , six of whom had attained the age of 110 , and four to that of 120 . By Ulpian ' s bills of mortality it appears , that we might , with great justness , compare Romwto London , in respect to the probability of the duration of life . Consequently . , we have every reasonable VOL X ' £
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
An Historical Essay On Longevity.
Moses lived to the age ofizo , but it is remarkable that ) je makes a comp laint that the age of man was but three-score years and ten , or , at most , four-score years . The warlike Joshua lived to be no . Eli , the hig h priest , was only 90 at his death , but Elisha lived to be much above 100 . In the latter period of the Jewish church , we find Simeon , a man full of hope
and confidence , distinguished by a life of 90 years . Among the Greeks we meet with several instances of longevity—The * sage Solon arrived to the age of 80 . Epimenides is said to have lived 1 . 57 years . Anacreon , though an intemperate man , was . choaked atthe age of 80 . to which period lived also Sophocles and Pindar . Gorgias , the orator of Leontium , prolonged his days to the Isocrates
term of 108 years . Protagoras , of Abdera , to 90 ; and lived 9 8 . Democritus , the pleasant philosopher , lived iogyearsj and the churlish Diogenes 90 . Zeno , the founder of the ' Stoics , arrived to the age of 100 ; but Plato only to that of 8 r . Pythagoras ^ who was remarkably abstemious , lived to be very old . ' He was wont to divide the life of man into four equal . parts . From the first to the
age of twenty , ' he called him but a man begun ; from forty to sixty a man ; from thence' to eighty , an old or declining man ;' after v . hich he accounted him as dead , let him live as long as he would .. Among the Romans we may reckon the following : —M . Valerius Corvinus , a very valiant , man , and exceedingly popular , was above the age of 100 . Orbilius , first a soldier and then a severe '
schoolmaster , attained to the same age . Fabius and Cato were both above 90 years old when they died . We have , moreover , remarkable instances of longevity among the Roman ladies . Terentia , the ' wife of Cicero , lived to the age of 103 . It is singular that several of the Roman actresses attained to a very old age . One Luceia , who entered on the theatre very young , performed a whole century , and made a public appearance atthe age of 112 . Galeria Copiolaan
, actress and dancer , was 90 when she first performed , and she afterwards was broughtforvvards as a prodigy , for the purpose of complimenting Pompey . But even this was not the last time of her acting , for she appeared once more to shew respect to Augustus . In the Census , as preserved by Pliny , we find , that on numbering the peole in the 7 6 th year of the Christian ariathere were living in that
p , part of Italy which lies between the Appenines and the Po , only 12 { . men who had attained to the age cf 100 years and upwards , viz . fiftyfour of 100 , fifty-seven of no , two of 125 , four of 130 , four of from 135 to 137 , and three of 140 . Besides these , there were in Parma five men , three of whom were 120 , and two 130 ; in Placentia , one of 130 ; at Faventia , a woman of 132 ; and in Villejacium , a small
town near Placentia , there were ten persons , six of whom had attained the age of 110 , and four to that of 120 . By Ulpian ' s bills of mortality it appears , that we might , with great justness , compare Romwto London , in respect to the probability of the duration of life . Consequently . , we have every reasonable VOL X ' £