Lucian of Samosata, Macrobii, Austin Morris Harmon (Translator), 19

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[19] They say that when Zeno stumbled in entering the assembly, he cried out: “Why do you call me?” ¹ and then, returning home, starved himself to death. Cleanthes, the pupil and successor of Zeno, was ninety-nine’ when he got a tumour on his lip. He was fasting when letters from certain of his friends arrived, but he had food brought him, did what his friends had requested, and then fasted anew until he passed away.

Macrobii. Lucian of Samosata. Austin Morris Harmon (Translator). United States. Perseus 5.0.

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Octogenerians (English) (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.)

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[19] Ζήνων δὲ ὁ τῆς Στωϊκῆς φιλοσοφίας ἀρχηγὸς ὀκτὼ καὶ ἐνενήκοντα· ὅν φασιν εἰσερχόμενον εἰς τὴν ἐκκλησίαν καὶ προσπταίσαντα ἀναφθέγξασθαι, Τί με βοᾷς; καὶ ὑποστρέψαντα οἴκαδε καὶ ἀποσχόμενον τροφῆς τελευτῆσαι τὸν βίον. Κλεάνθης δὲ ὁ Ζήνωνος μαθητὴς καὶ διάδοχος ἐννέα καὶ ἐνενήκοντα οὗτος γεγονὼς ἔτη φῦμα ἔσχεν ἐπὶ τοῦ χείλους καὶ ἀποκαρτερῶν ἐπελθόντων αὐτῷ παρʼ ἑταίρων τινῶν γραμμάτων προσενεγκάμενος τροφὴν καὶ πράξας περὶ ὧν ἠξίουν οἱ φίλοι, ἀποσχόμενος αὖθις τροφῆς ἐξέλιπε τὸν βίον.

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Octogenerians

1. Addressed to Pluto. According to Diogenes Laertius 7, 28 he said ἔρχομι· τί μ' αὔεις (“I come: why din it in my ears?”), a quotation from a play called Niobe (Nauck, Trag. Gr. Fragm. p. 51).

Lucian of Samosata Macrobii 19

Austin Morris Harmon (Translator)

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