Show SINGULAR INSTANCES OF el extraordinary extraordinary MEMORY seneca says of himself that by the mere eff efforts orts of his natural memory I 1 he was able to repeat 2000 words upon once hearing t them h ein ern each in its order though they had no dependence or connection upon each other after which he mentions a friend of his portius latro who retained in his memory all the declamations he had ever spoken and never found his memory fail him even in a sincle single word ile he also mentions ambassador to the romans from kill king eing pyrrhus who one day so well learnt the names of the whole senk sen seng k ate and all the populace assembled each by his name pliny says that cyndi cynic knew every soldier in his army by name and ald L scipio all the people of rome dr wallis tells us rs that without the assistance of pen and ink or anything equivalent he was able in the dark by mere force of memory to perform arithmetical operations as multiplication division extraction of roots ac to forty places particularly that in february 1672 1072 at the request of a foreigner cat gat at night in bed he proposed to himself a number of 53 places and without with ever writing down the number dictated it from firem memory at his next visit twenty days afterwards ex |