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side at the court two years longer ; when some mis- 

 understanding having arisen, he left the young 

 monarch at the commencement of his celebrated ex- 

 pedition into Asia, and returned to Athens. It has 

 been alleged that he accompanied his former pu- 

 pil as far as Egypt ; but the fact is not certain, al- 

 though circumstances would seem to render it 

 probable. 



He was well received at Athens, on account of 

 the benefits which Philip had conferred, for his sake, 

 on the inhabitants of that city ; and, obtaining per- 

 mission from the magistrates to occupy the Lyceum, 

 a large enclosure in the suburbs, he proceeded to form 

 a school. It was his custom to instruct his disciples 

 while walking with them ; and for this reason the 

 new sect received the name of Peripatetics, or walk- 

 ing philosophers. In the morning he delivered his 

 acroatic lectures to his select pupils, imparting to 

 them the more abstruse parts of metaphysical science ; 

 and in the evening gave to his visiters or the pub- 

 lic at large exoteric discourses, in which the subjects 

 discussed were treated in a popular style. As the 

 Lyceum soon acquired great celebrity, scholars 

 flocked to it from all parts of Greece. Xenocrates, 

 who shared with him the lessons of Plato, had by 

 this time succeeded Speusippus in the Academy, 

 and it has been alleged that Aristotle established 

 his seminary in contemptuous opposition ; observing, 

 that it would be shameful for him to be silent while 

 the other taught publicly. But although the rival 

 sages of those days cannot be supposed to have been 

 influenced by a gentler spirit than animates those of 

 our own times, there is no reason for attributing to 

 the Stagirite in this matter any other motive than a 



