Anacreon, the
lyric poet, lived eighty-five years; Stesichorus, the
lyric poet, the same, and Simonides of Ceos more
than ninety.
 

Of the grammarians, Eratosthenes, son of Aglaus,
of Cyrene, who was not only a grammarian but
might also be called a poet, a philosopher and a
geometrician, lived eighty-two years.

 
Lycurgus,
the Spartan lawgiver, is said to have lived eighty-five
years.

 The same story is told of Chrysippus (Diog. Laert. 7.185). 

 

 

These are the kings and the literary men whose
names I have been able to collect. As I have
promised to record some of the Romans and the
Italians who were octogenarians, I will set them
forth for you, saintly Quintillus, in another treatise,
if it be the will of the gods,