Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — VIGOROUS OLD AGE. [ARTICLE]

VIGOROUS OLD AGE.

Plato died in his eighty-third year, mnd his last hour was devoted to intellectual work. Isocrates was ninety-four years old when he wrote his famous work, “Panathenalkus.” Terestius Varro lived to be nearly a hundred, and he continued to write up to the day of his death. Hiero, king of Sicily, lived to be ninety, and Masinlssa lived to be still older and ruled for sixty years. Quintus Fabius was appointed augur when he was past middle age, and he held the office for sixty-two years. Cato Censorius transacted business until be was nearly ninety and retained to the end all his old time vigor. Gorgias Lwiitium, the teacher of Isocrates aud oilier distinguished men, was in excellent health at the age of 107 years. Chrysippus began to write his work on logic in his eightieth year. Cleanthes taught his pupils up to his ninetyninth year. Sophocles lived to be nearly a hundred, and during his last days he wrote the “(Edipus Coloneus," one of the "greatest tragedies ever written. Argantliouius began to rule when he was forty years old and held power for eighty years, and In the third book of the “History” Asinius Pollio tells us that he did not die until he was past his one hundred and thirtieth year.