MEMOIR OF ARISTOTLE. 49 



sion of sleep and food seemed fitted t.o relax and 

 impede. 



By degrees the number of his auditors increased 

 so much, that he was obliged to desist from walk- 

 ing, and deliver his prelections sitting. The cele- 

 brity of the teacher speedily conferred a renown on 

 the Lycaeum, which eclipsed that of its rival, and 

 which has made the very name famous to all poste- 

 rity. Among his friends and disciples at this time 

 were numbered some of the most eminent men of 

 letters and philosophy in Greece. Not to mention 

 Antipater, the governor of Macedon, and successor 

 of Alexander, to whom he gave instructions ^ his 

 school could boast of Theophrastus, who wrote the 

 History of Plants, and a vast number of other works 

 of Phanias, a celebrated logician of Eudemua 

 of Rhodes, known for his analytical and geometrical 

 writings of Eudemus of Cyprus, whom Aristotle 

 honoured so highly as to call his " Dialogue of the 

 Soul" after his name of Dicaearchus, an orator and 

 geometrician, whom Plutarch ranks among the best 

 of philosophers of Aristoxenus, whose ingratitude 

 has already been mentioned, as the calumniator of 

 his master of Hipparchus of Stagira Leon the 

 sophist j^Eschiron, a heroic poet of Mitylene 

 Hieronimus the Rhodian Heraclides of Pontus, a 

 noted philologist all of whom, with many others, are 

 acknowledged to have studied in the Lycaeum, where 

 she attendance was so numerous and distinguished, 

 that Nicander of Alexandria wrote a book expressly 



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