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A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons…
A discourse concerning old-age tending to the instruction, caution and comfort of aged persons / by Richard Steele ...
London: printed by J. Astwood for Tho. Parkhurst, 1688
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Thus Anacreon in Pliny trelates of one Arganthonius King of the Tartessians, and the like of Tullius Fullonius of Bononia, that lived an hundred and fifty years; of Cinyras who lived an hundred and sixty; of Aegymius that lived two hundred. And Hellanicus in the same Author affirmeth, that divers in Aetolia lived two, and some three hundred years. In Greece, Nestor's age became a kind of Proverb, attaining to three hundred years. And Sabellicus tells of divers in Arabia, who lived four hundred years. Famous is the Instance of Johannes de Temporibus, who bore arms under Charles the Great. An. 800. and was alive in the reign of Conrad 3. Ao. 1124. having lived three hundred sixty and one years. And in latter times Masseus tells us, in his Indian Histories of One in the last ⟨p. 15⟩age but one, that lived three hundred thirty and five years, whose teeth had several times fallen out, and new ones came in their stead, his hoary hairs returning by degrees to black again.
Thus Anacreon in Pliny trelates of one Arganthonius King of the Tartessians, and the like of Tullius Fullonius of Bononia, that lived an hundred and fifty years; of Cinyras who lived an hundred and sixty; of Aegymius that lived two hundred. And Hellanicus in the same Author affirmeth, that divers in Aetolia lived two, and some three hundred years. In Greece, Nestors age became a kind of Proverb, attaining to three hundred years. And Sabellicus tells of divers in Arabia, who lived four hundred years. Famous is the Instance of Iohannes de Temporibus, who bore arms under Charles the Great. An. 800. and was alive in the reign of Conrade 3. Ao. 1124. having lived three hundred sixty and one years. And in latter times Masseus tells us, in his Indian Histories of One in the last ⟨p. 15⟩age but one, that lived three hundred thirty and five years, whose teeth had several times faln out, and new ones came in their stead, his hoary hairs returning by degrees to black again.
- tPlin. hist. lib. 7. c. 48.