L. VIVES.
WHo (a) would.] Some would thinke them-selues much beholding to God if they might begin their daies againe, but wise Cato in Tully was of another minde. (b) Zoroastres smiled.] He was king of Bactria, the founder of Magique. Hee liued before the Troian warre 5000. yeares saith Hermodotus Platonicus. Agnaces taught him. Hee wrot 100000. verses, Idem. Eudoxus maketh him liue 5000. yeares before Plato his death, and so doth Aristotle. Zanthus Lydius is as short as these are ouer in their account, giuing but 600, betweene Zo∣roastres, and Xerxes passage into Greece. Pliny doubts whether there were many of this name. But this liued in Ninus his time; hee smiled at his birth, and his braine beate so that it would lift vp the hand; a presage of his future knowledge. Plin. He liued twenty yeares in a desert vpon cheese, which hee had so mixed, that it neuer grew mouldy nor decayed.