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appointed the supreme arbiter and referee, and four other persons 

 besides Theophrastus, " if he be willing and able" are directed to 

 administer, until Nicanor, the son of Proxenus to whom he gives 

 his orphan daughter in marriage and the guardianship of his orphan 

 son Nicomachus, together with the whole management of his pro- 

 perty shall take possession (2we av Kara\af3y). Nicanor was appa- 

 rently abroad on some service of danger. If he escapes, he is directed 

 by the codicil to erect certain statues of four cubits in height in Sta- 

 gira to Jupiter and Athene the Preservers (Aa Zwrf/pt Kal 'Adnva, 

 ffwra'pj), in pursuance of a vow which the testator had made on his 

 account. If anything should happen to Nicanor before his marriage, 

 or after his marriage before the birth of children, and he should fail to 

 leave instructions, Theophrastus is to take the daughter, and stand for 

 all purposes of administration in the place of Nicanor. Should he 

 decline to do so, the four provisional trustees are to act at their own - 

 discretion, guided by the advice of Antipater. Besides these arrange- 

 ments, all which seem adapted to meet a sudden emergency, such as 

 that of a man dying away from the person in whom he put the most 

 confidence, and in doubt whether the one whom he next trusted 

 would be able to act, we find legacies to more than one individual 

 which apparently imply a former bequest, 1 and a trifling want of 

 arrangement in the latter part, quite characteristic of a document 

 drawn up under the circumstances we have supposed. Thus, he 

 orders statues to be erected to Nicanor, and Nicanor' s father and 

 mother ; also to Arimnestus (his own brother), " that there might be 

 a memorial of him, he having died childless." A statue of Ceres, 

 vowed by his mother, is to be set up at Nemea or elsewhere. Then, 

 as if the mention of one domestic relation had suggested another, he 

 commands that wherever he should be buried, the bones of his 

 deceased wife should be taken up and laid by his side, according to 

 her desire ; and after this he again reverts to the subject of statues to 

 be set up, and gives directions for the fulfilment of the vow which he 

 had made for the safety of Nicanor. 



Aristotle's Aristotle left behind him a daughter named after her mother, 



descendants. Py t hj as> She is said to have been three times married; first, to 



Nicanor, the son of Aristotle's guardian Proxenus, and his own 



adopted child ; secondly, to Procles, a descendant apparently son or 



grandson of Demaratus, King of Lacedaemon, by whom she had two 



J A legacy is left to Herpyllis, irpbs rots irptTepov SiSo/j.evois (sec. 13), and one 

 Simus is to have X U P^ S r v ifp&repov apyvpiov, another slave, or money to buy one 

 (sec. 15). The battle of Cranon took place in August, B. c. 322; but it is very 

 probable that it could not be safely conjectured till some time after what course 

 Greek politics would take. If now Theophrastus was in Athens, and not with 

 Aristotle at Chalcis, as seems far from improbable (see Diog. Laert. Vit. Theo- 

 phrasti, sec. 36), Aristotle might reasonably fear that he, perhaps, would not be able 

 to act as his executor. Thus, too, when he directs a house and furniture to be pro- 

 vided for Herpyllis, he selects Chalcis and Stagira, both places where she would be 

 safe from Athenian hatred, for her to choose between as a residence (sec. 14), 



