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Title:  Romæ antiquæ descriptio a view of the religion, laws, customs, manners, and dispositions of the ancient Romans, and others : comprehended in their most illustrious acts and sayings agreeable to history / written in Latine by ... Quintus Valerius Maximus ; and now carefully rendred into English ; together with the life of the author.
Author: Valerius Maximus.
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Elegance. The Architect whereof, Philo, is said to have given so eloquent an account in the Theater of his purpose, that the most eloquent of people were sway'd as much by his Eloquence, as by his Art.3. Wonderfully was it done by that Artist, who suffered himself to be corrected by a Cobler, as to the Shoes and the Latchets: But when he began to talk of the Thigh, forbid him to go beyond the Foot.CHAP. XIII. Of Memorable Old Age.In ROMANS.1. M. Valerius Corvus.2. L. Metellus, the High-Priest.3. Q. Fabius Maximus.4. Perpenna the Censor.5. Appius Claudius the blind.6. Women, Livia, Teren∣tia and Clodia.Strangers.1. Hiero King of Sicily, & Massanissa King of Nu∣midia.2. Gorgias Leontinus.3. Xenophilus of Chalcis.4. Argantinus King of the Gaditans.5. Aethiopians, Indians, and Epimenides the Cnossian.6. The Epii, a people of Aetolia.7. Dantho, and two Kings of the Lachnii.LEt Old Age, prolonged to the utmost, have a place in this work, among the Examples of Industry, but with a particular Title and Chapter. That we may not seem to have forgotten those, to whom the Gods were principally indulgent. Insisting upon which, every one may make himself more happy in 0