Despite his life of exposure, Hippocrates lived to one hundred and nine; and Galen, the prince of physicians after him, who was naturally of a feeble constitution, lived past eighty, and few of the followers of his system of medicine, which stood for thirteen centuries, surpassed him in point of age.
Among the Romans, Orbilis, Corvinus, Fabius, and Cato, the enemy of the physicians, approximated the century mark.
A valuable collection relative to the duration of life in the time of the Emperor Vespasian has been preserved for us by Pliny from the records of a census, a perfectly reliable and creditable source.

In 76 A.D.there were living in that part of Italy which lies between the Apennines and the Po 124 persons who had attained the age of one hundred and upward.

There were 54 of one hundred; 57 of one hundred and ten; 2 of one hundred and twenty-five; 4 of one hundred and thirty; 4 of from one hundred and thirty-five to one hundred and thirty-seven, and 3 of one hundred and forty.

In Placentia there was a man of one hundred and thirty and at Faventia a woman of one hundred and thirty-two.

According to Hufeland, the bills of mortality of Ulpian agree in the most striking manner with those of our great modern cities.
Among hermits and ecclesiastics, as would be the natural inference from their regular lives, many instances of longevity are recorded.