EXAMPLES exkles OF AGIC from tho the advance sheets of the art of prolonging life in press by ticknor reed fields fiends Epe of crete is said to 10 have lived years the poet anacreon so fond of mirth and jollity lived to the age of 80 as i did also Sop sophocles hooles and pindar georgias of leontius Leonti um a great orator a man who ha bad traveled much and who spent a great deal of his time in the company of young people and in giving them instruction prolonged his life to the age of years of abdera abdela an orator and traveler als also lived 90 and esa man of great temperance and modesty lived 98 the friend and searcher of nature a man also of a good brood temper and serene mind lived years and ine fru galbut slovenly diogenes 90 zeno the founder of the stoical sect and a master in the art of self denial at 1 tamed nearly to the age of years and plato one of the most divine geniuses that ever existed and a friend to rest and calm meditation to that of 91 pythagoras who in hie hia doctrines recommended good regimen moderation of the passions and the gymnastic exercises became also very old he used to divide the life of man into four equal parts arts from the first to the twentieth year ear he ke called him a child a man begun lom from the twentieth to the fortieth a young man from the fortieth to the sixtieth a manfrom the sixtieth to the eightieth an old or declining dining man and after this period he reckoned him in no more among the living let him live to whatever age he might A very valuable le collection in regard to bo ako th duration of life in the die time of the emperor vespasian Yes pasian has been preserved to us by puny pliny from the record of the tha census a source perfectly sure and worthy of credit it there appears that in the year when that numbering of the people took place the the seventy sixth of our era there were living in in that part of italy which lies between the apennines and the po only men who had attained the age of years yeara and up wards namely fifty four of fifty seven of of four of four of from to and three of besides these there were in parma five men three of whom were and two in placentia one of at laventia Faven tia a woman of and in a small town near pla centia there lived ten persons six six of whom had attained to the age of and four to to that of