Moses, a man of extraordinary vigor, which, however, he exposed to great cares and fatigues, attained the advanced age of one hundred and twenty; and the warlike and ever-active Joshua lived to one hundred and ten.

Lejoucourt gives the following striking parallels: John Glower lived to one hundred and seventy-two, and Abraham to one hundred and seventy-five; Susan, the wife of Gower, lived to one hundred and sixty-four, and Sarah, the wife of Abraham, to one hundred and twenty-seven.

The eldest son of the Gower couple was one hundred and fifteen when last seen, and Isaac, the son of Abraham and Sarah, lived to one hundred and eighty.
However replete with fables may be the history of the Kings of Egypt, none attained a remarkable age, and the record of the common people is incomplete or unavailable.
If we judge from the accounts of Lucian we must form a high idea of the great age of the Seres, or ancient Chinese.

Lucian ascribes this longevity to their habit of drinking excessive quantities of water.
Among the Greeks we find several instances of great age in men of prominence.

Hippocrates divided life into seven periods, living himself beyond the century mark.