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.

 

Tiraeus, the second:
successor of Hyspausines on the throne, died of *
illness at the age of ninety-two. Artabazus, the
sixth successor of Tiraeus on the throne of Charax,
was reinstated by the Parthians and became king
at the age of eighty-six. Cammascires, king of the
Parthians, lived ninety-six years.

 

Massinissa, king
of the Moors, lived ninety years. Asandrus, who,
after being ethnarch, was proclaimed king of Bosporus by the divine Augustus, at about ninety years
proved himself a match for anyone in fighting from
horseback or on foot; but when he saw his subjects
going over to Scribonius on the eve of battle, he*
starved himself to death at the age of ninety-three.
According to Isidore the Characene, Goaesus, who
was king of spice-bearing Omania in Isidore’s time,
died of illness at one hundred and fifteen years.