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soul_n	body_n	fear_v	life_n	4,543	5	5.0312	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

age that passed in a man till his old age was accounted of our Ancestors but as a race of that length which directed to honour so that the last age is more happy then the middle because it hath more authority and lesse labour The highest perf●ction in age is authority How great Majesty was in * L. Cecillius Metellus how great in Attillius * Collatinus whom the generall consent of all nations did allow to be the chiefe among the people the verses on his sepulchre are well known By right therefore he is to be held noble and of authority in whose praises the reports of all men do consent what men of wisedome have we seen of late Pub. Crossus the high Priest and after him Marcus * Lepidus that succeeded him in the office what should I speak of Paulus or of Affricanus or of Maximus whom I named before Not only iu whose speech but also in whose looks remained authority Age hath especially honoured age such reverence that it is more to be accounted of then all the pleasures of youth XVII TABLE of Annotations 1. CYrus Minor reigned in Persia 353. years after the building of Rome in the times of Aggaeus and Zacharias the Prophets in Judea 2. Marcus Valerius Corvinus fighting against a French souldur that challenged him in the lists a crow came and sat upon his head and smo●e her wings in his enemies face and so blinded him that Valerius obtained the victory and ever after was called Corvinus he was after both Consul and Dictator CHAP. XVIII BUt you must remember that in all this speech I have praised only that age which is built on the foundation of youth from whence it happened that that speech of mine wherein I affirmed that age to be miserable which only defended it selfe by speech was so generally applauded of all men for neither gray haires nor wrinckles get authority suddainly but the honest and vertuous deeds of the age before spent obtain the chiefest fruits of authority For these things are honourable which do seem but of small account v.z. to be saluted to be sought unto to have place given to them to be risen unto to be brought in to be conducted out and to give counsel which both among us and in other well mannerd cities is observed diligently T is said that Lisander of Lacedemon of whom I spake even now was wont to say that Lacedemon was a most fit and honest habitation for old age for nowhere was that age more reverenced or honoured then there It comes now to my mind that a certain old man at Athens at the plays comming in among the people no man would give him room but when he came among the Lacedemonians who when they come of an embassage sit all in one place they all rose up to him and received the old man to sit with them to whom when great praise was given for the courteous deed one of them said that the Athenians knew good manners but would not use them Many excellent Ceremonies are observed in our Colledge of Auguries whereof this which we speak of is one that every man in their consultations gives his opinion according to his age the oldest first and so downwards for Augurs are not only preferred before some that are honoured but also before many which besides their years and gravity are in office what are therefore the pleasures of the body to be compared to the rewards of authority which whosoever make th use of seemes to me to have gone well through the enterlude of his life and not like an unskilfull player to fayle in the last act CHAP. XIX BUt old men are froward unconstant peevish and crabbed and we complaine also that they are covetous but these be the faults of the manners not of the age but way wardnesse and those faults may have some excuse though not justly yet such may seem probable For sometimes they think they are mocked or despised and besides every small offence to a weak body is grievous all which not withstanding may be sweetned both by good manners arts and that may wel be seen both in the life and the play of those two Brothers in 1 Adelphus in 2 Terence how much crabbednesse in the one and how much courtesie in the other Even so the case stands for as all wines do not grow soure and tart in continuance so not all age I like severity in an old man but not bitternesse Bnt as for covetousnesse in age I know not what it meanes for there can be no greater absurdity then when the journey is almost done to take care to provide much more provision XIX TABLE of Annotations 1. ADelphus a comedy written by Terence wherein is shewed the difference of ages in two brothers the one Mitio a milde gentle man the other Demea a froward perverse man 2. Terence born at Carthage he wrote six Comedies which are now extant some report that he wrote more but they were drowned in a ship at sea he was well-beloved of Scipio and Laelius CHAP. XX THere remaineth the fourth cause which seemeth to vex and grieve our age very much the approching of death which surely followeth age at the heeles O miserable old man whatsoever thou be which canst not learne in all thy life forespent to despise death which is either plainly to be neglected if it kill the soule with the body or to be desired if it bring happinesse after life for no third way is found what should I then fear if after death I shall be either nothing or else happy but what fool though he be a young man is there that can tell whether he shall live till night for That age hath more causes of death then Age hath young men sooner fall into diseases their sicknesse is and more grievous and dangerous hey are healed with more pain and trouble so that few of them come to be old which if some of them happen to do they live more prudently and better then before for understanding counsell and reason is in age which if it were not there there could be no Cities But I return to death which as it were hangs over our heads thinke you that it is the particular fault of age when you see it common to youth I have well perceived not only by the death of my dear son but also of your 1 brothers Scipio who were expected to great dignity that death is common to all ages XX TABLE of Annotations 1. PAulus Aemylius had four sons two by adoption and two by another wife of which last two the one died five dayes before his triumph and the other three dayes after His sons by adoption were Scipio and Fabius CHAP. XXI BUt the young man hopes to live long which the old man cannot He hopes foolishly for what is greater folly then to account uncertain things for certain false for true the old man hath nothing to hope for more therefore he is in

fetters of this body we performe a certain grievous burden and duty of necessity For the soule is divine and is thrust down from a most heavenly dwelling and is as it were drowned in the earth a place contrary to divine and eternall nature and surely I thinke that the immortall gods have put soules into men for this cause that beholding the earth and the order of the heavens they should imitate them in the order and constancie of their life neither doth reason and disputation only drive me to thinke so but the authority and opinion of the best Philosophers I have heard that Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans that were almost our neighbours who were called 1 Italian Philosophers never doubted but that we had our soules chosen out of the most divine essence I have heard also that Socrates who was judged the wisest in all the world by the 2 oracle of 3 Apollo did dispute concerning the immortality of the soule But what need many words so I thinke and so I have perswaded my selfe that seeing there is such swiftnesse of understanding such memory of things past such fore-sight of things to come such arts such sciences and such inventions that that spirit which containeth these things cannot but be immortall And for as much as the soule is alwayes moved and hath no beginning of motion because it moveth it selfe nor shall have no end of motion because it shall never leave it selfe and seeing that the nature of the soule is simple of it selfe and hath nothing mingled with it contrary to it I beleeve it cannot be divided and therefore cannot die and it is a great argument that men know many things before they are borne because when they are boyes and learne hard arts they so swiftly conceive innumerable things that they seem not then to learne them but as it were to remember them again These are almost the very words of Plato XXII Table of Annotations 1. PYthagoreans he calleth them his neighbours because they were of Calabria which joyned on the borders of Italy and Rome 2. Oracle of Apollo stood in Delphos an Isle where in the name of Apollo the devill through a brazen image made doubtfull answers to questions that were asked it continued till the birth of Christ and about that time it ceased 3. Apollo the sonne of Jupiter and Latona born at one birth with his sister Diana in the Isle Delos he is accounted for the sonne and the god of Physicians Musicians Painters and Poets CHAP. XXIII 1. Cyrus the great in Xenophon at his death said thus Doe not suppose O my dear children that I when I shall depart from you shall turne to nothing or become no where for while I lived with you you did not see my soule but you understood that it was in my body by the things which I did therefore beleeve that it is the same still though hereafter you shall not see it For the honours and good name of noble men should not live after their deaths if in their lives their soules or mindes did nothing worthy remembrance Verily I could never be perswaded that the soules of men did only live while they were in mortall bodies and not afterwards nor that the soule is any longer foolish then while it is in the foolish body but that after being freed and pure from the mixture of the body it becomes wise and seeing that man is dissolved by death the end of all other things is apparent for all things go from whence they came the soule only neither when it cometh nor when it goeth doth appeare Now there is nothing more like death then sleep and the soules of them that sleep do greatly declare the divinesse thereof for sometime they are freed from the body for a time and do behold many things to come whereby may be gathered what they will after be when they have clearly freed themselves out of the bonds of the body wherefore if the soul be thus immortall saith he worship me as a god but if it die with the body yet yee fearing the gods which do behold and governe all this faire world shall keep my memory inviolable This spake Cyrus on his death-bed XXIII TABLE of Annotations 1. CYrus the great sonne of Cambises he slew Astyages last King of the Medes and translated the monarchy to the Persians rule He left behind him two sonnes Cambises and Tranvazares CHAP. XXIV BUt if you please let us see a little of our later times no man shall perswade me Scipio that either your two grandfathers Paulus and Africanus or the Uncle of Africanus or many other excellent men whom it is not now necessary to name would have indeavoured so much in great affaires unlesse they had known that in their posterity their memory should live together with their praise Do you thinke that after the manner of old men I may boast something of my selfe that I would have taken such paines in the City and in the Campe if I should have ended my fame together with my life Were it not better to lead a quiet and peaceable old age without labour and contention but I know not by what meanes the soule lifting it selfe up doth so behold the memory that shall be left to posterity as if it should then live when it had once died Which unlesse it were so that memory remained and the soule were immortal scarce would any excellent minde indevour to get renown and glory But suppose that every wise man dieth with a good soule and every foole with a bad doth it not seem to you that that soule which knoweth more and is of deeper understanding doth see that it shall go to a better place then that soule whose intellect is more dull and mortall Truely I am verry desirous to fee your fathers whom I love so well and I not onely wish to see them whom I have known but also them of whom I have heard and read therefore from the place whether I am going shall no man withhold me nor from thence as a ball strike mee back and if any god would grant me to be now a child in my cradle againe and to be young I would refuse it Neither would I having runne my full course be called back again For what profit hath life or rather what trouble but say it have some commodity yet when it hath a fulnesse and satiety it ought to have an end I will not deplore my life forespent as many learned men have done neither do I repent that I have lived because I have so lived that I think I was not borne in vaine and I depart out of this life as from an Inne not as from a continuall habitation for nature hath given us a place to rest in not to dwell in O happy shall that day be when I shall come into the company and counsell of those men of whom I spake before and not onely to them but to my deare sonne Cato then whom no man was better or more excellent in piety whose body was by me interred which thought to dye before him but his soule not forgetting me but continually beholding me is gone thither where he perceived that I should come whose death I did the better beare not that I take it very patiently but I comforted my selfe with this hope that I should not live long after him And in these things Scipio for you say that you and Loelius were wont to marvell at it is mine age light and not onely not troublesome but also pleasant But if I do erre that the soules of men bee immortall I do erre willingly neither will I while I live be wrested from mine opinion wherein I am delighted but if when I am dead as some small Philosophers say I shall feel nothing I fear not least the dead Philosophers should laugh at this my error But if we were not immortall yet it were to be wished that a man die in his due time for of nature as of all things else there is an end But old age is the last act of our life as of a play of which there ought to be an end especially when there is satiety and fulnesse of time joyned with it Thus much I had to say concerning old age which I wish you may obtain that those things which you have heard me speak of you might know by experience FINIS PRinted or sold by Wlliam Leake at the signe of the Crown in Fleetstreet between the two Temple gates Thefe Books Callis learned readings upon the statute 23 of H. 8. Cap. 5. of Sewers Perkins on the Law in English 8o The Parsons Law in English 8o Topicks in the Lawes of England 8o Nyes artificiall Fire-workes and Gunnery Wilbies second set of musick 3. 4. 5 and 6. parts The Fort-Royall of the Scriptures or a vade mecum Concordance presenting to the world a 100 of the most usefull heads of Scripture common placed for present use Mathematical Recreations 8o Dellamans Vse of the Horizontall Quadrant 8o Garden of Naturall Contemplations by D. Fulke 8o Brinlleys Corderius in English 8o * In a book of the Consolation of Philosophy which is lost * Turpe est dicere non putaram * Pares cum paribus facillime congregantur * Consul 550 yeeres ab urbe cond. * Coss. breifly for Consul * A Senio In the Play called Attellana * Cons. An. 333. * Cons. An. 337. * Censor with Cato * An Epicure of the sect of Aristippus * Tribune with L. Menenius * A con vivo * rebus Venereis * L. Andronius he was made free for his good wit by L. Salinator * An excellent Orator * Assidue discens plurima fio senex * occatio * An excellent Physician he cured King Philips eye when it was shot out with an arrow * A Town in Persia * High Priest Anno 671. * Coss with Sulp. Paterculus Anno 672. * High Priest Anno 671. The fourth Objection to age neernesse to death * A place neer the sea-shore of Gades * Slain by Hanniball in the Carthage warre

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