§15Ἀρταξέρξης ὁ Μνήμων ἐπικληθείς, ἐφʼ ὃν Κῦρος ὁ ἀδελφὸς ἐστρατεύσατο, βασιλεύων ἐν Πέρσαις ἐτελεύτησεν νόσῳ ἓξ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ἐτῶν γενόμενος, ὡς δὲ Δίνων ἱστορεῖ, τεσσάρων καὶ ἐνενήκοντα.
Artaxerxes, surnamed Mnemon, against whom his brother Cyrus campaigned, died of illness while ruling over the Persians when he was eighty-six years old, but as Dinon records, ninety-four.
Ἀρταξέρξης ἕτερος Περσῶν βασιλεύς, ὅν φησιν ἐπὶ τῶν πατέρων τῶν ἑαυτοῦ Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνὸς συγγραφεὺς βασιλεύειν, ἔτη τρία καὶ ἐνενήκοντα βιοὺς ἐπιβουλῇ τἀδελφοῦ Γωσίθρου ἐδολοφονήθη.
Another Artaxerxes, king of the Persians, whom the writer Isidore of Charax says ruled in the time of his own ancestors, having lived ninety-three years, was assassinated through the plot of his brother Gosithras.
Σινατρόκης δὲ ὁ Παρθυαίων βασιλεὺς ἔτος ὀγδοηκοστὸν ἤδη γεγονὼς ὑπὸ Σακαυράκων Σκυθῶν καταχθεὶς βασιλεύειν ἤρξατο καὶ ἐβασίλευσεν ἔτη ἑπτά.
And Sinatruces, the king of the Parthians, when he was already eighty years old, having been brought back by the Sacauracae Scythians, began to rule and ruled for seven years.
Τιγράνης δὲ ὁ Ἀρμενίων βασιλεύς, πρὸς ὃν Λούκουλλος ἐπολέμησεν, πέντε καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ἐτῶν ἐτελεύτα νόσῳ.
And Tigranes, the king of the Armenians, against whom Lucullus waged war, died of illness at eighty-five years of age.
§16Ὑσπαυσίνης δὲ ὁ Χάρηκος καὶ τῶν κατʼ Ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν τόπων βασιλεὺς πέντε καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ἐτῶν νοσήσας ἐτελεύτησεν.
And Hyspaosines, the king of Charax and of the regions along the Red Sea, died after falling ill at eighty-five years of age.
Τίραιος δὲ ὁ μεθʼ Ὑσπαυσίνην τρίτος βασιλεύσας δύο καὶ ἐνενήκοντα βιοὺς ἔτη ἐτελεύτα νόσῳ.
And Tiraeus, who ruled as the third king after Hyspaosines, having lived ninety-two years, died of illness.
Ἀρτάβαζος δὲ ὁ μετὰ Τίραιον ἕβδομος βασιλεύσας Χάρακος ἓξ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ἐτῶν καταχθεὶς ὑπὸ Πάρθων ἐβασίλευσε.
And Artabazus, who ruled as the seventh king of Charax after Tiraeus, was brought back by the Parthians and ruled when he was eighty-six years of age.
Καμνασκίρης δὲ βασιλεὺς Παρθυαίων ἓξ καὶ ἐνενήκοντα ἔζησεν ἔτη.
And Kamnaskires, king of the Parthians, lived ninety-six years.
§17Μασσινίσσας δὲ Μαυρουσίων βασιλεὺς ἐνενήκοντα ἐβίωσεν ἔτη.
And Massinissa, king of the Maurusians, lived ninety years.
Ἄσανδρος δὲ ὁ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ Σεβαστοῦ ἀντὶ ἐθνάρχου βασιλεὺς ἀναγορευθεὶς Βοσπόρου περὶ ἔτη ὢν ἐνενήκοντα ἱππομαχῶν καὶ πεζομαχῶν οὐδενὸς ἥττων ἐφάνη· ὡς δὲ ἑώρα τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ ὑπὸ τὴν μάχην Σκριβωνίῳ προστιθεμένους ἀποσχόμενος σιτίων ἐτελεύτησεν βιοὺς ἔτη τρία καὶ ἐνενήκοντα·
And Asander, who was proclaimed king of the Bosporus by the divine Augustus instead of ethnarch, when he was about ninety years of age, showed himself second to none in fighting both on horseback and on foot; but when he saw his own men side with Scribonius during the battle, he abstained from food and died, having lived ninety-three years.
Γοαισὸς δέ, ὥς φησιν Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνός, ἐπὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἡλικίας Ὀμάνων τῆς ἀρωματοφόρου βασιλεύσας πεντεκαίδεκα καὶ ἑκατὸν γεγονὼς ἐτῶν ἐτελεύτησεν νόσῳ.
And Goaisos, as Isidore of Charax says, ruling over the perfume-bearing Omanoi in his own time, died of illness when he was one hundred and fifteen years of age.
βασιλέας μὲν οὖν τοσούτους ἱστορήκασι μακροβίους οἱ πρὸ ἡμῶν.
So then, our predecessors have recorded this many long-lived kings.
§18ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ φιλόσοφοι καὶ πάντες οἱ περὶ παιδείαν ἔχοντες, ἐπιμέλειάν πως καὶ οὗτοι ποιούμενοι ἑαυτῶν, εἰς μακρὸν γῆρας ἦλθον, ἀναγράψομεν καὶ τούτων τοὺς ἱστορημένους, καὶ πρώτους γε φιλοσόφους.
And since philosophers and all those concerned with education, also themselves taking some care of themselves, reached a long old age, we shall write down also those of them who have been recorded, and first indeed the philosophers.
Δημόκριτος μὲν Ἀβδηρίτης ἐτῶν γεγονὼς τεσσάρων καὶ ἑκατὸν ἀποσχόμενος τροφῆς ἐτελεύτα.
Democritus of Abdera, when he was one hundred and four years old, died by abstaining from food.
Ξενόφιλος δὲ ὁ μουσικός, ὥς φησιν Ἀριστόξενος, προσσχὼν τῇ Πυθαγόρου φιλοσοφίᾳ ὑπὲρ τὰ πέντε καὶ ἑκατὸν ἔτη Ἀθήνησιν ἐβίωσεν.
And Xenophilus the musician, as Aristoxenus says, having devoted himself to the philosophy of Pythagoras, lived over one hundred and five years in Athens.
Σόλων δὲ καὶ Θαλῆς καὶ Πιττακός, οἵτινες τῶν κληθέντων ἑπτὰ σοφῶν ἐγένοντο, ἑκατὸν ἕκαστος ἔζησεν ἔτη,
And Solon, Thales, and Pittacus, who were among those called the Seven Sages, lived each one hundred years.
§19Ζήνων δὲ ὁ τῆς Στωϊκῆς φιλοσοφίας ἀρχηγὸς ὀκτὼ καὶ ἐνενήκοντα· ὅν φασιν εἰσερχόμενον εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ προσπταίσαντα ἀναφθέγξασθαι, Τί με βοᾷς; καὶ ὑποστρέψαντα οἴκαδε καὶ ἀποσχόμενον τροφῆς τελευτῆσαι τὸν βίον.
And Zeno, the founder of the Stoic philosophy, lived ninety-eight years; they say that when he was entering the assembly and stumbled, he cried out, "Why do you call me?" and returning home and abstaining from food, he ended his life.
Κλεάνθης δὲ ὁ Ζήνωνος μαθητὴς καὶ διάδοχος ἐννέα καὶ ἐνενήκοντα οὗτος γεγονὼς ἔτη φῦμα ἔσχεν ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλους καὶ ἀποκαρτερῶν ἐπελθόντων αὐτῷ παρʼ ἑταίρων τινῶν γραμμάτων προσενεγκάμενος τροφὴν καὶ πράξας περὶ ὧν ἠξίουν οἱ φίλοι, ἀποσχόμενος αὖθις τροφῆς ἐξέλιπε τὸν βίον.
And Cleanthes, the pupil and successor of Zeno, when he was ninety-nine years old, had a tumor on his lip, and while he was starving himself, when letters arrived for him from some of his companions, he took food and settled the matters his friends requested, and then, abstaining from food again, departed from life.
§20Ξενοφάνης δὲ ὁ Δεξίνου μὲν υἱός, Ἀρχελάου δὲ τοῦ φυσικοῦ μαθητὴς ἐβίωσεν ἔτη ἓν καὶ ἐνενήκοντα· Ξενοκράτης δὲ Πλάτωνος μαθητὴς γενόμενος τέσσαρα καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα· · Καρνεάδης δὲ ὁ τῆς νεωτέρας Ἀκαδημίας ἀρχηγὸς ἔτη πέντε καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα· · Χρύσιππος ἓν καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα· Διογένης δὲ ὁ Σελευκεὺς ἀπὸ Τίγριος Στωϊκὸς φιλόσοφος ὀκτὼ καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα· · Ποσειδώνιος Ἀπαμεὺς τῆς Συρίας, νόμῳ δὲ Ῥόδιος, φιλόσοφός τε ἅμα καὶ ἱστορίας συγγραφεὺς τέσσαρα καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα· · Κριτόλαος ὁ Περιπατητικὸς ὑπὲρ δύο καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα· .
And Xenophanes, the son of Dexinus and pupil of Archelaus the natural philosopher, lived ninety-one years; and Xenocrates, having been a pupil of Plato, eighty-four years; and Carneades, the leader of the New Academy, eighty-five years; Chrysippus, eighty-one years; and Diogenes of Seleucia on the Tigris, the Stoic philosopher, eighty-eight years; Posidonius of Apamea in Syria, but by law a Rhodian, both a philosopher and a writer of history, eighty-four years; and Critolaus the Peripatetic, over eighty-two years.
§21Πλάτων δὲ ὁ ἱερώτατος ἓν καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα.
And Plato, the most divine, eighty-one years.
Ἀθηνόδωρος Σάνδωνος Ταρσεὺς Στωϊκός, ὃς καὶ διδάσκαλος ἐγένετο Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ θεοῦ, ὑφʼ οὗ ἡ Ταρσέων πόλις καὶ φόρων ἐκουφίσθη, δύο καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη βιοὺς ἐτελεύτησεν ἐν τῇ πατρίδι, καὶ τιμὰς ὁ Ταρσέων δῆμος αὐτῷ κατʼ ἔτος ἕκαστον ἀπονέμει ὡς ἥρωϊ.
Athenodorus, the son of Sandon, a Stoic from Tarsus, who was also the teacher of the divine Augustus Caesar, by whom the city of the Tarsians was also relieved of taxes, having lived eighty-two years, died in his homeland, and the people of Tarsus pay him honors every year as to a hero.
Νέστωρ δὲ Στωϊκὸς ἀπὸ Ταρσοῦ διδάσκαλος Καίσαρος Τιβερίου ἔτη δύο καὶ ἐνενήκοντα· Ξενοφῶν δὲ ὁ Γρύλλου ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἐβίωσεν ἔτη.
And Nestor, the Stoic from Tarsus, teacher of Tiberius Caesar, ninety-two years; and Xenophon, the son of Gryllus, lived over ninety years.