In another part of the same work Hufeland gives an account of several instances of exceptional longevity. One of these relates to Terentia, the wife of Cicero, who, despite the sore trials to which she was subjected, and despite the occasional attacks of gout with which she was afflicted, attained the great age of 103. A second instance is that of Livia, the wife of the Emperor Augustus, a woman who possessed a domineering and passionate character, but who, nevertheless, was blessed with a full share of happiness. At the time of her death she was ninety years old. Two other Roman women are mentioned by Hufeland as having attained a great age. They were both of them distinguished actresses. The first one, whose name was Luceia, began her theatrical career at a very early age and was 112 years old on the occasion of her last appearance on the stage; her entire theatrical career having covered a period of one hundred years. Galeria Copiala is the name of the other actress, who was at the same time famous as a _danseuse_. Ninety years after her first appearance on the stage she took part in a complimentary performance in honor of Pompey; and even at a still later date she acted in a play which was intended to celebrate the distinguished reign of the Emperor Augustus. Hufeland mentions further instances of great longevity which he had gleaned from Jewish history, and from these I select the following: Abraham lived to be 175 years old, and his wife, Sarah, the only woman of that remote period of time of whom we possess a precise knowledge, died at the age of 127; Isaac attained the age of 180; Jacob lived to be 147; Ishmael, a son of Hagar (one of Abraham’s hand-maids) and a man of warlike habits, attained the age of 137; and Joseph, the next to the youngest of Jacob’s sons, a political leader and a man of great wisdom, died at the age of 110. Moses, a man of conspicuous intellectual capacity and possessing a strong will, lived to be 120 years old. But even he complained that “the life of a man usually lasts only seventy years, or, in exceptional instances, eighty years”—a statement, says Hufeland, which justifies the belief that 3000 years ago the duration of human life was about the same as it is to-day. Joshua, who led a very active life and was a good deal of a warrior, died at the age of 110; Eli, the High Priest, a man of a phlegmatic temperament, lived to be a little over ninety years of age; and Elisha, who despised all the conventionalities of life and cared nothing for wealth, lived far beyond the limit of 100 years. The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, who recommended care in the choice of one’s food, moderation in eating, and the cultivation of gymnastic exercises, attained a good old age. He claimed that after a man reached his eightieth year, no matter how great an age he might afterward attain, he should be reckoned among those who have ceased to live.