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.

 

Cyrus, king ot
the Persians in olden times, according to the Persian
and Assyrian annals (with which Onesicritus, who
wrote a history of Alexander, seems to agree) at the
age of a hundred asked for all his friends by name and
learned that most of them had been put to death by
his son Cambyses. When Cambyses asserted that he
had done this by order of Cyrus, he died of a broken
heart, partly because he had been slandered for his
son’s cruelty, partly because he accused himself of
being feeble-minded.

 

Artaxerxes, called the Unforgetting, against whom Cyrus, his brother, made the
expedition, was king of Persia when he died of illness
at the age of eighty-six (according to Dinon ninetyfour). Another Artaxerxes, king of Persia, who,
Isidore the Characene historian says, occupied the
throne in the time of Isidore’s fathers, was assassinated at the age of ninety-three through the
machinations of his brother Gosithras. Sinatroces,


 

king of Parthia, was restored to his country in his
eightieth year by the Sacauracian Scyths, assumed
the throne and held it seven years. Tigranes, king
of Armenia, with whom Lucullus warred, died of
illness at the age of eighty-five. Hyspausines, king
of Charax and the country on the Red Sea, fell
ill and died at eighty-five.