Lucian, Macrobii, ed. Austin Morris Harmon, 17

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[17] Μασσινίσσας δὲ Μαυρουσίων βασιλεὺς ἐνενήκοντα ἐβίωσεν ἔτη. Ἄσανδρος δὲ ὁ ὑπὸ τοῦ θεοῦ Σεβαστοῦ ἀντὶ ἐθνάρχου βασιλεὺς ἀναγορευθεὶς Βοσπόρου περὶ ἔτη ὢν ἐνενήκοντα ἱππομαχῶν καὶ πεζομαχῶν οὐδενὸς ἥττων ἐφάνη· ὡς δὲ ἑώρα τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ ὑπὸ τὴν μάχην¹ Σκριβωνίῳ προστιθεμένους ἀποσχόμενος σιτίων ἐτελεύτησεν βιοὺς ἔτη τρία καὶ ἐνενήκοντα· Γοαισὸς δέ, ὥς φησιν Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Χαρακηνός, ἐπὶ τῆς ἑαυτοῦ ἡλικίας Ὀμάνων τῆς ἀρωματοφόρου βασιλεύσας πεντεκαίδεκα καὶ ἑκατὸν γεγονὼς ἐτῶν ἐτελεύτησεν νόσῳ.

βασιλέας μὲν οὖν τοσούτους ἱστορήκασι μακροβίους οἱ πρὸ ἡμῶν.

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

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Octogenerians Perseus (Lucian, Vol. 1. Harmon, Austin Morris, editor. London: William Heinemann, Ltd.; Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1913.) — 17 focus

[17] Massinissa, king of the Moors, lived ninety years. Asandrus, who, after being ethnarch, was proclaimed king of Bosporus by the divine Augustus, at about ninety years proved himself a match for anyone in fighting from horseback or on foot; but when he saw his subjects going over to Scribonius on the eve of battle, he* starved himself to death at the age of ninety-three. According to Isidore the Characene, Goaesus, who was king of spice-bearing Omania in Isidore’s time, died of illness at one hundred and fifteen years.

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Μακρόβιοι

1. τοὺς ἑαυτοῦ ὑπὸ τὴν μάχην Guyet: τοὺς ὑπὸ τῇ μάχῃ MSS.

Lucian Macrobii 17

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