He thinks that we owe them both to that "imperial Macchiavel,
Tiberius." He is right with respect to the one, and wrong with regard to
the other. The saying, "that a man after thirty must be either a fool or
a physician," had, as it appears, its origin from Tiberius; but the
observation that "more worship the rising than the setting sun," is to
be attributed to Pompey.
Tacitus says of Tiberius, that he was "solitus eludere medicorum artes,
atque eos qui post tricesimum aetatis annum ad internoscenda corpori
{316} suo utilia vel noxia alieni consilia indigerent." _Annal_. vi. 46.
Suetonius says: "Valetudine prosperrima usus est,--quamvis a tricesimo
aetatis anno arbitratu eam suo rexerit, sine adjumento consiliove
medicorum." _Tib._ c. 68. And Plutarch, in his precepts _de Valetudine
tuenda_, c. 49., says--
[Greek: "Aekousa Tiberion pote Kaisara eipein, hos anaer huper
hexaekonta [sic vulgo, sed bene corrigit Lipsius ad Tac. loc.
cit. triakonta] gegonos etae, kai proteinon iatro cheira,
katagelastos estin.
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