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A33149	Cato major, or, The book of old age first written by M.T. Cicero ; and now excellently Englished by William Austin of Lincolns Inne, Esquire ; with annotations upon the names of the men and places.; Cato maior de senectute. English	Cicero, Marcus Tullius.; Austin, William, 1587-1634.	1648 (1648)	Wing C4288; ESTC R6250	35,701	154

it so fit for nothing as for Homers bookes he lived a hundred and eight yeeres the place of his birth and Parents are unknown 10. Pythagoras called the Prince of Philosophers being indeed the first that called himselfe a Philosopher he was born at Samos and was the sonne of a Carver he had as it is reported 600 Disciples among whom was Architas the Tarentine He first taught that the soules of men departed went into other bodies which that he might the better perswade he affirmed that when he was first born he was Athalide the sonne of Mercurie and did obtaine of him this boone that he onely of all men might remember all the bodies that ever he should be changed out of Which he obtained and after affirmed that Athalide being dead he was changed into Euphorbus who being staine at Troy he was born again in the body of Hermotinus and after his death into the body of Delias a fisher man who was also called Pyrrhus and lastly he was made Pythagoras And that so all other mens soules did in like manner onely they alwayes forgat from whose body they last came he abstained from all flesh and fed only on roots and herbs he would be called Philosophus that is a lover of wisdome but not Sophius that is wise for he said that none but God was wise He dyed at Metapontum being 99 yeere old 11. Democritus born at Abderites his Father was a very rich man so that he feasted Xerxes great Army that drunke Rivers dry After his Fathers death he went to travaile and returned very poor where under the city wals he builded himselfe a silly cottage where he lived contemplating the works of nature He affirmed that all things were made of Atomes such as we see fleet in the sunne in a shiny day he was wont to laugh always what chance soever hapned as on the contrary Heraclitus alwaies wept He willingly abstaining from meat died when he was 104. yeers old 12. Xenocrates born in Calcedonia Plato's schollar he was somewhat blunt and very earnest and dry in his Communication he loved Plato very much he lived chastly and holily and wrote many good works and died being fourescore and twelve years old 13. Zeno the sonne of Pyrelus and the adopted sonne of Parmenides he learned his Philosophy of his adopted father wherein he was so excellent that Plato and Aristotle affirme he first invented logick he was the beginner of the Stoicks and is therefore called the prince of that sect he was a Governour in the Common-wealth he for the good of his Countrey conspired against Dionysius a Tyrant but was taken in the action and being examined of his confederats he accused all the Tyrants chief friends and told him that if he would hear him in private he would discover more whereupon the King bowing down his head to hear him he bit of his nose for this he was pounded in a stone mortar to make him confesse but he biting of his tongu and spitting it in his tormentors face died being 98. yeers old 14. Cleanthes a Stoick Philosopher and Schollar to Zeno he bore labour and griefe with such chearfulnesse that he was called an other Hercules He was very poor and when he wanted mony to buy paper he wrote the saying of Zeno on bones and shels 15. Rome built first by Romulus and Remus two brethren a City too well known of some sufficiently of all 16. Diogenes the Cynick Philosopher who when his father was imprisoned fled to Athens and became Antisthenes Scholar He lived ninety years and died as some say of the biting of a mad dog others say holding his breath he stiflled himselfe His Schollars made a Tombe for him and on the top thereof they set a dog His witty and satyricall learning are known of most men CHAP. VIII BUt that we may omit these divine studies I can name some of the I Sabine fields countrey 2 Romans my neighbours and familiars then whom none take more pains in the fields either in sowing gathering or sorting the fruits yet among them it is no marvell for there is none so old but that he thinkes to live one year more but they labour in things which they know do not at all belong unto them and as our friend Statius Caecilius saith in his Synephebis they plant trees which shall not give fruit till another age and after they are dead which makes the husband-man when any askes him for whom he sets those trees to answer for the immortall gods that would not that I only should receive the fruits of the earth from my predecessors but leave them also to my posterity That same 3 Caecilius wrote thus of age If old age brings no other faults this one enough will be By living long they oft behold the things they would not see And many times the things they would but youth it selfe is subject to that inconvenience But he wrote yet worse of age then that In age I take this thing to be the greatest misery To think the younger sort of men do hate their company Nay rather pleasant then hatefull is their company For as wise old men are delighted with young men indued with a vertuo us disposition and their age is made the easier that are worshipped and beloved of such so wise young men are rejoyced in the precepts of old men by which they are led to the studies of virtue neither do I perceive that I am lesse pleasant to you then you are to me Now you see that age is not faint and negligent but laborsome and alwayes doing something and indeavouring in such things as every mans study was in his former li●e but how if old men learne in their age also as we see 4 Solon boasting in his verses that he learned something every day grew an old man as I my self have done who now in my age have learned the Greek tongue which truly I took greedily as it were to satisfie a continuall thirst that those things might be known to me which you now see me use in examples And when I heard also wha● 5 Socrates had profited in musick I would have learned that ●oo for your ancients learned musick but truly I bestowed my pains in learning VIII TABLE of Annotations 1. SAbin fields a place where Cato had a countrey house not far of from Rome 2. Countrey Romans it is thought that he meant Fabritius 3. Caecilius Statius a comicall poet he wrote the comedy of Synephebis of two young men brought up together from their youth 4. Solon one of the seven wise men of Greece he was the sonne of Epistides and born at Salamina therefore called Salaminus he made many good lawes at Athens he builded a city in Sicilia and called it after his name Solos he died when he was ninety yeers old and was buried at Salamina 5. Socrates CHAP. IX NEither do I now desire the strength of youth no more then when I was young I did desire

the thunder-bolts of warre Publius was Affricanus his father and Cnaeus father to Scipio Nausica 2. Cyrus There were three of this name two Kings and one Poet who for his fingular wit was made a Bishop by Theodosius the Emperour 3. Xenophon a man of great wisdome and beauty the sonne of Grillus He was Scholler to Socrates 4. Lucius Metellus Consul with M. Fabius Aburb condit 506. He was High Priest twice Consul Dictator master of the Horse and Decemvir He first led Eléphants in Triumph in the first Carthaginian warre in his age he lost his sight when he would have spoyled the Temple of Vesta 5. Nestor King Pylion sonne of Nelius and Adonidis a man of great experience and wisdome he went with Agamemnon to Troy and lived three hundred yeeres 6. Captaine of Greece was Agamemnon the sonne of Atreus King of Argives he led the Army of the Grecians to Troy to be revenged for the Rape of Helen where when he had obtained the victory returning home Clytemnestra his wife presented him with a headlesse shirt which while he was putting on and searching where to put forth his head Aegisthus his wifes adulterer slew him 7. Ajax a strong and valiant Captaine under Agamemnon who striving with Ulysses for the Armor of Achilles and being overcome of him ranne mad and slew himselfe 8. Troy a famous City in the lesser Asia built by Tros King thereof it was three times sacked twice by Hercules and l●stly cleane overthrown by Agamemnon and the Greekes for the cause above said 9. Thermopylae a mountaine in Grecia so called of the hot matters that flow from thence there was fought a great battaile between Attilius Glabrio and Antiochus King of Macedon at which was Cato 10. Titus Pontius who when the Capitoll had be enlike to be taken swam over Tibur Pliny writes that he had the sinewes of his arms and hands double 11. Masinissa King of Numidia he was received into the Romane leāgue by Publius Scipio Africanus CHAP. XI STrength is not in old age neither indeed is strength required of age therefore both by the laws and statutes our age is free from those offices which cannot be exercised without strength therefore we are not compelled to do those things which we cannot no nor so much as we can but some men are so weak that they can scarcely execute any office or duty of life at all yet that is not the proper fault of age but most commonly of sicknesse how weak was Scipio the sonne of Publius Africanus he which adopted you Scipio of how small or rather of no health which had it not been so he had shined like another light in the city for to his fathers magnanimity of mind in him was added most plentifull learning what wonder is there then in old men if they be sometimes weak since youth it selfe cannot avoid it Age is to be resisted Laelius and Scipio and his faults are to be ruled with diligence we must strive against age as against a disease we must have a care of our health we must use moderate exercises so much meat and drinke must be taken that the strength may be refreshed not oppressed neither must we only feed the body but the minde and understanding much more for they also are extinguished with age unlesse you alwayes adde to them by study and instill as it were oyle into a lampe For though mens bodies grow heavy and weary with much exercise yet the minde is made more light and ready by exercising it selfe They whom Caecilius cals foolish old men are such as are credulous forgetfull and dissolute whith are not generally the faults of all age but of a sluggish drowsie and slothfull age For as wantonnesse and lust is more in young men then in old and yet not in all young men but in the dishonest so that folly of age which is wont to be called doating is in light-headed old men but not in all Appius being both an old man and a blind man governed foure valiant sonnes and five beautifull daughters a great houshold and many retayners for he had his mind ready bent as a bow neither fainting did he yeild to age He held not only authority but also command over his own his servants feared him his children reverenced him he was dear to all the ancient manners and discipline of the countrey flourished in that house For age is so excellent if it keep its authority if it be bound to no man that even to the last gaspe it beareth rule over its own And as I like a youth in whom there is some gravity so I like an old man in whom there is some youthfulnesse which who so observeth may be an old man in body but in minde he never shall be I am now writing my seventh book of 1 Originales and of excellent causes whatsoever I have heretofore defended now especially I compile oratiōs I handle the sooth-sayers the Priests and the Civil law I also use the Greek tongue much And after the manner of the Pythagoreans for to exercise my memory I call to mind in the evening what I have spake heard or done all that day These are indeed the cases of the minde these the exercises of the wit in which studies while I busie my selfe I do not greatly desire the strength of body I am present with my friends I come into the senate often and of my own accord I bring discourses long and well thought upon which I there defend not by strēgth of body but of mind which if I could not do yet lying on my bed the remembrance of the good I have done would much delight me But hitherto I have so lead my life that I am yet able to performe the like fore one which liveth in these labours and studies never perceives how age creepeth on him for it doth by little and little wax old without feeling neither is life suddainly dissolved but by long continuance exstinguished XI TABLE of Annotations 1. THe Book of Originals was in manner of a Chronicle which Cato wrote there are but a few fragments of them extant the rest are lost CHAP. XII THere followeth the third Objection to age they say that it wanteth pleasures Oh excellent gift of age if it take away that which makes our youth vitious therefore hear now O yee excellent young men the old oration of 1 Architas the Tarentine a singular and worthy man which was delivered me when I was a young man with Q. Maximus at Tarentum He said that there was no deadlier plague given by nature tomen then the pleasure of the body the greedy lusts whereof are rash and unbrideledly stirred up to get and gain From hence are derived treasons from hence arise the overthrowes of Common-wealths and the privy conspiracies and whisperings with the enemies That to conclude there was no wickednesse nor no evill deed to the undertaking of which the lust of pleasure did not incite a man and that