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successor^ had preferred Theophrastus. It is doubted, 

 besides, whether he taught publicly until after Plato's 

 death, which happened in 348 b. c. 



Speusippus, the nephew of the sage just named, 

 having been appointed to succeed him in his school, 

 Aristotle, retiring from Athens, went to reside with 

 Hermeias, governor of Assus and Atarneus in My- 

 sia. Here he remained three years ; but his friend 

 having been executed, by command of Artaxerxes, 

 as a rebel against Persia, he was obliged to seek 

 refuge in Mytelene, taking with him Pythias, the 

 kinswoman and adopted daughter of Hermeias, to 

 whose memory he afterwards erected a statue in 

 the temple of Delphos. This lady, endeared to him 

 by the gratitude which he felt towards her father, 

 and by the distress to which she had been reduced 

 by his death, he married in the thirty-seventh year 

 of his age. She died, however, soon after their 

 union, leaving an infant daughter, who received the 

 same name. 



A short time having elapsed, he was invited by 

 Philip to superintend the education of his son. 

 This distinction he no doubt owed in part to his 

 previous intimacy with the King of Macedonia; 

 but it must also have arisen from the great celebrity 

 which he enjoyed, as excelling in all kinds of science, 

 and especially in the doctrine of politics. Alexan- 

 der had attained the age of fifteen when the manage- 

 ment of his studies was confided to Aristotle, then in 

 his forty-second year. There is ground, however, 

 for presuming that previous to this period the phi- 

 losopher had been consulted respecting the instruc- 

 tion of the young prince. 



The master, it has been said, was worthy of his 



