Methuselah
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
his son
in the texts
De legendis gentilium libris
Biblical patriarch famed for extreme longevity, invoked as inadequate beside eternal life.
But I, even if one should name the old age of Tithonus, or of Arganthonius, or of the longest-lived among us, Methuselah, who is said to have lived a thousand years lacking thirty, or should measure out the whole time since men have existed, will laugh as at the thoughts of children, looking to the long and ageless eternity, of which it is no more possible for the mind to grasp an end than to supp …
De Cultu Feminarum
Son of Enoch, charged with transmitting his father's teaching to later generations
If that is the reason, let them recall that Noah, the great-grandson of Enoch himself, survived the cataclysm—who surely, by domestic name and hereditary tradition, had heard and remembered concerning the grace of his great-grandfather with God and concerning all his preachings, since Enoch had enjoined nothing else upon his son Methuselah than that he should hand down the knowledge of these things to his posterity.