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.

V. TABLE of Annotations.

• 1. PLato the sonne of Aristo and Periander, borne at Athens, the same yeere and day that Apollo was borne at Delos, a swarme of Bees when he was young light on his mouth, when he lay in his Cradle, in token of his Eloquence to come, he was Scorates, his Scholer, after whose death he went to Philolan∣uan among the Pythagoreans, and from thence to Egypt, where he was healed of a disease by the Seawater, wherefore he was wont to say, the Sea ebbe dand flowed all manner of diseases. When he dwell at Athens, he brought into one vo∣lumn, al the works of Pythag. He∣raclitus, and Socrates Dionysius the Tyrant, when he had caused him to be sold, and hearing that he was safely returned into his owne

• Country, wrote to him that he would not either speake or write e∣vil of him. Who answered that he had not so much idle time, as once to thinke of him; he dyed being 84 yeere old.
• 2. Socrates, the sonne of Sophro∣niscus a Lapidary, and Phenareta a Midwife, borne at Athens, ma∣ster to Plato, a man of great pati∣ence; he had two wives, Xantippe, and the daughter of Aristidas; he was wont to say that whether a man did marry or no, he should re∣pent; he was often troubled with the scolding of Xantippe his curst wife, but never moved. Alcibi∣ades whom he deerely loved, was wont to tell him that he could not abide the railing of Xantippe: yet quoth Socrates I can, for I am used to it; but quoth he canst thou abide the gagling of thy Geese at home? Yea quoth Alcibiades,

• for they lay me egges; so quoth So∣crates, Xantippe brings me chil∣dren. He seldome wrote any thing, saying that wisdome should be printed in mens hearts, not on beasts skins. He was judged to be the wisest man that lived, by the Oracle of Apollo, for which he was envyed, and accufed that he would not worship Images, and was condemned by fourescore jud∣ges to be poysoned, which was forthwith done by the executio∣ners.
• 3. Panathenaicus, a booke which Socrates wrote of all the noble ghests, and deeds of the Athenians, which Book is lost.
• 4. Gorgias of Leontia, an excel∣lent Rhetorician, the Scholler of Empedocles, and master to So∣crates, and other excellent Phy∣losophers; he got so much by his Art, that he first set up a golden

• Statua, in the Temple of Apollo. He dyed as Plyny saith, being a hundred and nine yeere old.
• 5. The Voconian Law, was made by Caius Voconius, which was that no man should make his daughter his sole heyre, which was after repealed by Domitianus Caesar.