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called Pythias and his second Herpyllis. He had two children, a son 

 Nichomachus, and a daughter Pythias. . Nicomachus died without 

 having been married, and Pythias was married three times. By 

 Nieanor, her first husband, she had no children. To Procles, her 

 second husband, who was a descendant of the Lacedaemonian King 

 Demaratus, she bore two sons, Procles and Demaratus. By Metrodorus, 

 who was a physician, she had a son who also bore the name of Aristotle. 

 The name was also found in inscriptions in Sicily where there was a 

 Chalcidian settlement, but it did not appear in Eretrian inscriptions 

 earlier than the second century. In an Eretrian inscription of the 

 second century there were about 1600 names, among which were 

 found a Nicomachus and a Procles and three Aristotles. Now, it was 

 an admissible hypothesis that the family of Pythias, one of whose 

 sons was Aristotle, lived at Eretria or one of the cities of Euboea, 

 because we had also the name of Procles in this inscription. This 

 Aristotle, the son of Pythias, was mentioned in the wdll of Theo- 

 phrastus, who was the successor in the Peripatetic school of Aristotle. 



A curious point arose in connection with this inscription Biorrj 

 ^ApLo-ToriXov. The ordinary genitive of the word was 'AptorroreXov?. 

 The latter form was invariably found in inscriptions before 353 b c. 

 But from 350 to 300 the former began to prevail, and the German 

 scholar Meisterhans had discoved 39 instances of ov when ovs might 

 have been expected. After 300 the latter form was found exclusively 

 on inscriptions. The inscription w\as assigned by the best epi- 

 graphical authorities to the third century B.C. Now, it was clear from 

 an examination of the remains that the principal grave, which w^as 

 shown by the strigil to be that of a male, belonged to an earlier 

 period than the adjoining graves. This Biote might, from the 

 genitive which follows, have been either the wife or the daughter of 

 Aristotle, the philosopher's grandson. 



In addition to the inferences which might be drawn from the 

 circumstances which he had mentioned, there were others to be 

 derived from the study of iconography. There were a number of 

 terra-cotta statuettes in the grave. But one, in particular, was of a 

 singular and striking character. These statuettes in tombs were 

 known to have relation to and to be frequently descriptive of the 

 persons interred ; and this was immediately recognisable as a type of 

 the statues of the fourth century B.C., known as those of philosophers 

 and orators. The figure was draped and the hands folded at the 

 side. The grave was clearly that of a person of great distinction. 

 There was a gold diadem and a band of pure gold about l.V inch 

 wide, with repousse patterns fastened round the brow, and then six 

 were drawn out one after the other. Then at the head, where a 

 portion of the skull remained, there was still another diadem with 

 eaves of conventional ivy attached to it, and there was also, as he 

 had mentioned, a metal pen. Here, therefore, he had discovered a 

 tomb belonging to a great family, the burying-place of an eminent 

 man, as was shown by the profusion of gold ornaments, and this man 



