Arganthonius, king of the Tartessians, lived a
hundred and fifty years according to Herodotus the
historian and Anacreon the song-writer,
 Our author did not verify his references. Herodotus
(1, 163) says one hundred and twenty, Anacreon (frg. 8) one
hundred and fifty. 
but some
consider this a fable. Agathocles, tyrant of Sicily,
died at ninety, as Demochares and Timaeus
 Timaeus, as quoted in Diodorus (21, 16, 5) said seventy-two. tell us.
Hiero, tyrant of Syracuse, died of an illness at the
age of ninety-two, after having been ruler for
seventy years, as Demetrius of Callatia and others
say. Ateas, king of the Scythians, fell in battle
against Philip near the river Danube at an age of
more than ninety years. Bardylis, king of the




 

Illyrians, is said to have fought on horseback in the
war against Philip in his ninetieth year. Teres,
king of the Odrysians, from what Theopompus says,
died at ninety-two.

 

Antigonus One-eye, son of
Philip, and king of Macedonia, died in Phrygia
in battle against Seleucus and Lysimachus, with
many wounds, at eighty-one: so we are told by
Hieronymus, who made the campaign with him.
Lysimachus, king of Macedonia, also lost his life in
the battle with Seleucus in his eightieth year, as
the same Hieronymus says. There was also an
Antigonus who was son of Demetrius and grandson
of Antigonus One-eye: he was king of Macedonia
for forty-four years and lived eighty, as Medeius and
other writers say. So too Antipater, son of Iolaus,
who had great power and was regent for many kings
of Macedonia, was over eighty when he died.

 

Ptolemy, son of Lagus, the most fortunate of the
kings of his day, ruled over Egypt, and at the age
of eighty-four, two years before his death, abdicated
in favour of his son Ptolemy, called Philadelphus,
who succeeded to his father’s throne in lieu of his
elder brothers.1

Philetaerus, an eunuch, secured and
kept the throne of Pergamus, and closed his life at

 At least one word, perhaps more than one, has fallen out
of the Greek text. Schwartz would read ἀδελφὴν γαμῶν
("and married his sister"): my supplement is based on
Justinus 16, 27: is (i.e. Ptolemy Soter) contra ius gentium
minimo natu ex filiis ante infirmitatem regnum tradiderat,
eiusque rei rationem populo reddiderat. 

 

eighty. Attalus, called Philadelphus, also king of
Pergamus, to whom the Roman general Scipio paid
a visit, ended his life at the age of eighty-two.

 

Mithridates, king of Pontus, called the Founder,
exiled by Antigonus One-eye, died in Pontus at
eighty-four, as Hieronymus and other writers say.
Ariarathes, king of Cappadocia, lived eighty-two
years, as Hieronymus says: perhaps he would have
lived longer if he had not been captured in the
battle with Perdiccas and crucified.