For first, It is implicitely, and upon consequence denied by _Aristotle_ in his Politicks, in that discourse against _Plato_, who measured the vicissitude and mutation of States, by a periodical fatality of number. _Ptolomie_ that famous Mathematician plainly saith, he will not deliver his doctrines by parts and numbers which are ineffectual, and have not the nature of causes; now by these numbers saith _Rhodiginus_ and _Mirandula_, he implieth Climacterical years, that is, septenaries, and novenaries set down by the bare observation of numbers. _Censorinus_ an Author of great authority, and sufficient antiquity, speaks yet more amply in his book _De die Natali_, wherein expresly treating of Climacterical daies, he thus delivereth himself. Some maintain that 7 times 7, that is, fourty nine, is most dangerous of any other, and this is the most general opinion; others unto 7 times 7, add 9 times 9, that is, the year of eighty one, both which consisting of square and quadrate numbers, were thought by _Plato_ and others to be of great consideration; as for this year of Sixty three or 7 times 9, though some esteem it of most danger, yet do I conceive it less dangerous then the other; for though it containeth both numbers above named, that is, 7 and 9, yet neither of them square or quadrate; and as it is different from them both, so is it not potent in either. Nor is this year remarkable in the death of many famous men. I find indeed that _Aristotle_ died this year, but he by the vigour of his mind, a long time sustained a natural infirmity of stomack; so that it was a greater wonder he attained unto Sixty three, then that he lived no longer. The Psalm of _Moses_ hath mentioned a year of danger differing from all these: and that is ten times 7 or seventy; for so it is said, The daies of Man are threescore and ten. And the very same is affirmed by _Solon_, as _Herodotus_ relates in a speech of his unto _Crœsus_, _Ego annis septuaginta humanæ vitæ modum definio_: and surely that year must be of greatest danger, which is the Period of all the rest; and fewest safely pass thorow that, which is set as a bound for few or none to pass. And therefore the consent of elder times, setling their conceits upon Climacters, not only differing from this of ours, but one another; though several Nations and Ages do fancy unto themselves different years of danger, yet every one expects the same event, and constant verity in each.