36 MEMOIR OF ARISTOTLE. 



cessions in Behalf of his friends and countrymen 

 whenever his interest could be of service. The misfor- 

 tunes, which, in the progress of Macedonian con- 

 quest, had befallen his native city Stagira, gave 

 him an opportunity of shewing the strength of his 

 attachment to the place of his birth. Although he 

 had not resided there, and appears scarcely to have 

 visited it for the long period of thirty years, yet, 

 through his representations at the Court of Pella, the 

 town was entirely rebuilt, its walls and ornamental 

 edi6ces were restored, and its wandering citizens 

 collected and reinstated in their former possessions. 

 He himself supplied them with a code of wise laws 

 for the regulation of their government ; nor were the 

 inhabitants on their part ungrateful for the generosity 

 of their sovereign, and the patriotism of their fellow 

 townsman. To commemorate the event, they insti- 

 tuted annual festivals called Aristotelaea, and gave the 

 name of Stagirites to the month in which they were 

 celebrated. Authors have recorded other examples 

 of his exertions, in having, amidst the devastations of 

 war, extended the patronage and secured the protec- 

 tion of science. We learn from Plutarch, that Philip, 

 in testimony of the satisfactory manner in which he 

 fulfilled his engagements as preceptor to his son, as- 

 signed him a school and a study, called the Nym- 

 phaeum, at the neighbouring town of Mieza, where, 

 .ong after his death, the shady walks and stone benches 

 were pointed out still bearing his name. The same 

 biographer mentions that Alexander, in reverence for 



