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.
 
These are the kings who have been recorded as
long-lived by our predecessors. Since philosophers
and literary men in general, doubtless because they too
take good care of themselves, have attained old age,


 

I shall put down those whom there is record of,
beginning with the philosophers. Democritus ot
Abdera starved himself to death at the age of one
hundred and four. ' -Xenophilus the musician, we are
told by Aristoxenus, adopted the philosophical
system of Pythagoras, and lived in Athens. more
than one hundred and five years. Solon, Thales,
and Pittacus, who were of the so-called seven wise
men, each lived a hundred years, and Zeno, the
head of the Stoic school, ninety-eight.

 
They say
that when Zeno stumbled in entering the assembly,
he cried out: “Why do you call me?”
 Addressed to Pluto. According to Diogenes Laertius
7, 28 he said ἔρχομι· τί μ' αὔεις (“I come: why din it in my
ears?”), a quotation from a play called Niobe (Nauck,
Trag. Gr. Fragm. p. 51). 
and then,
returning home, starved himself to death. Cleanthes,
the pupil and successor of Zeno, was ninety-nine’
when he got a tumour on his lip. He was fasting
when letters from certain of his friends arrived, but
he had food brought him, did what his friends had
requested, and then fasted anew until he passed
away.

 

Xenophanes, son of Dexinus and disciple
of Archelaus the physicist, lived ninety-one years;
Xenocrates, the disciple of Plato, eighty-four;
Carneades, the head of the New Academy, eightyfive; Chrysippus, eighty-one; Diogenes of Seleucia
on the Tigris, a Stoic philosopher, eighty-eight;
Posidonius of Apameia in Syria, naturalised in Rhodes,



 

who was at once a philosopher and a historian,
eighty-four; Critolaus, the Peripatetic, more than
eighty-two: Plato the divine, eighty-one.