2/5 Isocrates in his ninety-fourth year wrote a most noble work. Sophocles did the same when nearly a hundred years old. Simonides wrote poems in his eightieth year. Aulus Gellius did not desire to live longer than he should be able to write, as he says himself in the prologue to the Noctes Atticae. For the Athenians, hating the people of Megara, decreed that if any of the Megarensians entered Athens, he should be put to death. |