§22οὗτοι μὲν φιλοσόφων οἱ ἔνδοξοι.
These were the illustrious among the philosophers.
συγγραφέων δὲ Κτησίβιος μὲν ἐτῶν ἑκατὸν καὶ τεσσάρων ἐν περιπάτῳ ἐτελεύτησεν, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τοῖς χρονικοῖς ἱστορεῖ.
Of the historians, Ctesibius died at the age of one hundred and four during a walk, as Apollodorus records in his Chronica.
Ἱερώνυμος δ’ ἐν πολέμοις γενόμενος καὶ πολλοὺς καμάτους ὑπομείνας καὶ τραύματα ἔζησεν ἔτη τέσσαρα καὶ ἑκατόν, ὡς Ἀγαθαρχίδης ἐν τῇ ἐνάτῃ τῶν περὶ τῆς Ἀσίας ἱστοριῶν λέγει, καὶ θαυμάζει γε τὸν ἄνδρα ὡς μέχρι τῆς τελευταίας ἡμέρας ἄρτιον ὄντα ἐν ταῖς συνουσίαις καὶ πᾶσι τοῖς αἰσθητηρίοις, μηδενὸς γενόμενον τῶν πρὸς ὑγίειαν ἐλλιπῆ.
And Hieronymus, having been in wars and having endured many hardships and wounds, lived one hundred and four years, as Agatharchides says in the ninth book of his Histories on Asia, and he indeed admires the man as being sound in his social relations and in all his senses until his last day, having been lacking in nothing that pertains to health.
Ἑλλάνικος ὁ Λέσβιος ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ πέντε, καὶ Φερεκύδης ὁ Σύριος ὁμοίως ὀγδοήκοντα καὶ πέντε.
Hellanicus of Lesbos eighty-five, and Pherecydes of Syros likewise eighty-five.
Τίμαιος ὁ Ταυρομενίτης ἓξ καὶ ἐνενήκοντα· Ἀριστόβουλος δὲ ὁ Κασανδρεὺς ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἔτη λέγεται βεβιωκέναι, τὴν ἱστορίαν δὲ τέταρτον καὶ ὀγδοηκοστὸν ἔτος γεγονὼς ἤρξατο συγγράφειν, ὡς αὐτὸς ἐν ἀρχῇ τῆς πραγματείας λέγει.
Timaeus of Tauromenium ninety-six; and Aristobulus of Cassandrea is said to have lived over ninety years, and he began to write his history when he was eighty-four years old, as he himself says at the beginning of his work.
Πολύβιος δὲ ὁ Λυκόρτα Μεγαλοπολίτης ἀγρόθεν ἀνελθὼν ἀφʼ ἵππου κατέπεσεν καὶ ἐκ τούτου νοσήσας ἀπέθανεν ἐτῶν δύο καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα, Ὑψικράτης δὲ ὁ Ἀμισηνὸς συγγραφεὺς διὰ πολλῶν μαθημάτων γενόμενος ἔτη δύο καὶ ἐνενήκοντα.
And Polybius, the son of Lycortas, of Megalopolis, returning from the country, fell from his horse and having fallen ill from this died at eighty-two years of age; and Hypsicrates of Amisus, the writer, having gone through many studies, lived ninety-two years.
§23ῥητόρων δὲ Γοργίας, ὅν τινες σοφιστὴν καλοῦσιν, ἔτη ἑκατὸν ὀκτώ· τροφῆς δὲ ἀποσχόμενος ἐτελεύτησεν· ὅν φασιν ἐρωτηθέντα τὴν αἰτίαν τοῦ μακροῦ γήρως καὶ ὑγιεινοῦ ἐν πάσαις ταῖς αἰσθήσεσιν εἰπεῖν, διὰ τὸ μηδέποτε συμπεριενεχθῆναι ταῖς ἄλλων εὐωχίαις.
Of the rhetoricians, Gorgias, whom some call a sophist, lived one hundred and eight years; and he died by abstaining from food; they say that when he was asked the reason for his long and healthy old age with all his senses, he said that it was because he had never joined in the feasts of others.
Ἰσοκράτης ἓξ καὶ ἐνενήκοντα ἔτη γεγονὼς τὸν πανηγυρικὸν ἔγραφε λόγον, περὶ ἔτη δὲ ἑνὸς ἀποδέοντα ἑκατὸν γεγονὼς ὡς ᾔσθετο Ἀθηναίους ὑπὸ Φιλίππου ἐν τῇ περὶ Χαιρώνειαν μάχῃ νενικημένους, ποτνιώμενος τὸν Εὐριπίδειον στίχον προηνέγκατο εἰς ἑαυτὸν ἀναφέρων,
"Σιδώνιόν ποτʼ ἄστυ Κάδμος ἐκλιπών· "
καὶ ἐπειπὼν ὡς δουλεύσει ἡ Ἑλλάς, ἐξέλιπε τὸν βίον.
Isocrates wrote his Panegyricus when he was ninety-six years old, and when he was about one year short of one hundred, when he perceived that the Athenians had been defeated by Philip in the battle of Chaeronea, lamenting, he uttered the Euripidean verse, applying it to himself, "Cadmus once leaving the Sidonian city..." and having added that Greece would be enslaved, he departed from life.
Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ ὁ Περγαμηνὸς ῥήτωρ, θεοῦ Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ διδάσκαλος γενόμενος καὶ σὺν Ἀθηνοδώρῳ τῷ Ταρσεῖ φιλοσόφῳ παιδεύσας αὐτόν, ἔζησεν ταὐτὰ τῷ Ἀθηνοδώρῳ ἔτη ὀγδοήκοντα δύο.
And Apollodorus the rhetorician of Pergamum, having become the teacher of the divine Augustus Caesar and having educated him along with Athenodorus the philosopher of Tarsus, lived eighty-two years, the same as Athenodorus.
Ποτάμων δὲ οὐκ ἄδοξος ῥήτωρ ἔτη ἐνενήκοντα.
And Potamon, no undistinguished rhetorician, ninety years.
§24Σοφοκλῆς ὁ τραγῳδοποιὸς ῥᾶγα σταφυλῆς καταπιὼν ἀπεπνίγη πέντε καὶ ἐνενήκοντα ζήσας ἔτη.
Sophocles the tragic poet choked after swallowing a grape-stone and died, having lived ninety-five years.
οὗτος ὑπὸ Ἰοφῶντος τοῦ υἱέος ἐπὶ τέλει τοῦ βίου παρανοίας κρινόμενος ἀνέγνω τοῖς δικασταῖς Οἰδίπουν τὸν ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, ἐπιδεικνύμενος διὰ τοῦ δράματος ὅπως τὸν νοῦν ὑγιαίνει, ὡς τοὺς δικαστὰς τὸν μὲν ὑπερθαυμάσαι, καταψηφίσασθαι δὲ τοῦ υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ μανίαν.
When he, at the end of his life, was prosecuted by his son Iophon on the charge of madness, he read to the judges Oedipus at Colonus, demonstrating through the play that he was sound in mind, so that the judges admired him exceedingly, and voted his son to be mad.
§25Κρατῖνος δὲ ὁ τῆς κωμῳδίας ποιητὴς ἑπτὰ πρὸς τοῖς ἐνενήκοντα ἔτεσιν ἐβίωσε, καὶ πρὸς τῷ τέλει τοῦ βίου διδάξας τὴν Πυτίνην καὶ νικήσας μετʼ οὐ πολὺ ἐτελεύτα.
And Cratinus, the comic poet, lived ninety-seven years, and having produced The Flagon near the end of his life and won, he died not long after.
καὶ Φιλήμων δὲ ὁ κωμικός, ὁμοίως τῷ Κρατίνῳ ἑπτὰ καὶ ἐνενήκοντα ἔτη βιούς, κατέκειτο μὲν ἐπὶ κλίνης ἠρεμῶν, θεασάμενος δὲ ὄνον τὰ παρεσκευασμένα αὐτῷ σῦκα κατεσθίοντα ὥρμησε μὲν εἰς γέλωτα, καλέσας δὲ τὸν οἰκέτην καὶ σὺν πολλῷ καὶ ἀθρόῳ γέλωτι εἰπὼν προσδοῦναι τῷ ὄνῳ ἀκράτου ῥοφεῖν ἀποπνιγεὶς ὑπὸ τοῦ γέλωτος ἀπέθανεν.
And Philemon the comic poet, having lived ninety-seven years like Cratinus, was lying quietly on his bed, and when he saw an ass devouring the figs prepared for him, he burst into laughter, and calling his slave and saying with loud and continuous laughter to give the ass some unmixed wine to drink, he was choked by the laughter and died.
καὶ Ἐπίχαρμος δὲ ὁ τῆς κωμῳδίας ποιητὴς καὶ αὐτὸς ἐνενήκοντα καὶ ἑπτὰ ἔτη λέγεται βιῶναι.
And Epicharmus, the comic poet, is also himself said to have lived ninety-seven years.
§26Ἀνακρέων δὲ ὁ τῶν μελῶν ποιητὴς ἔζησεν ἔτη πέντε καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα, καὶ Στησίχορος δὲ ὁ μελοποιὸς ταὐτά, Σιμωνίδης δὲ ὁ Κεῖος ὑπὲρ τὰ ἐνενήκοντα.
And Anacreon, the lyric poet, lived eighty-five years, and Stesichorus the lyric poet the same, and Simonides of Ceos over ninety.
§27γραμματικῶν δὲ Ἐρατοσθένης μὲν ὁ Ἀγλαοῦ Κυρηναῖος, ὃν οὐ μόνον γραμματικόν, ἀλλὰ καὶ ποιητὴν ἄν τις ὀνομάσειεν καὶ φιλόσοφον καὶ γεωμέτρην, δύο καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα οὗτος ἔζησεν ἔτη.
Of the grammarians, Eratosthenes, the son of Aglaos, of Cyrene, whom one might call not only a grammarian but also a poet and a philosopher and a geometer, lived eighty-two years.
§28καὶ Λυκοῦργος δὲ ὁ νομοθέτης τῶν Λακεδαιμονίων πέντε καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα ἔτη ζῆσαι ἱστορεῖται.
And Lycurgus, the lawgiver of the Lacedaemonians, is recorded to have lived eighty-five years.
§29τοσούτους ἐδυνήθημεν βασιλέας καὶ πεπαιδευμένους ἀθροῖσαι· ἐπεὶ δὲ ὑπεσχόμην καὶ Ῥωμαίων τινὰς καὶ τῶν τὴν Ἰταλίαν οἰκησάντων μακροβίων ἀναγράψαι, τούτους σοι, θεῶν βουλομένων, ἱερώτατε Κυίντιλλε, ἐν ἄλλῳ δηλώσομεν λόγῳ.
So many kings and men of education we have been able to collect; but since I promised to write down also some of the Romans and of those who inhabited Italy who were long-lived, these, if the gods are willing, most sacred Quintillus, we shall show to you in another discourse.