Nestor, you know,
the wisest of the Achaeans, outlasted three genera-
tions, Homer says:
 Il, 1, 250; Odyss. 3, 245. 
and he tells us that he was
splendidly trained. in mind and in body. ‘Likewise
Teiresias the seer outlasted six generations, tragedy
says: The source is unknown. 
and one may well believe that a man
consecrated to the gods, following a simpler diet,
lives very long.