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MEMOIJl OF AKISTOTLE. 
This man by hands dishonourable slain, 
The faithless Persian king his victim made; 
Not as the hero falls on battle plain, 
Cut under friendship’s hollow mask betrayed. 
There were certain detractors who attempted to 
give his virtuous friendship for Hermias the colouring 
of a criminal attachment; but their reports obtained 
little credit at the time, and are now discarded as 
notorious calumnies. Theocritus of Chios, a Greek 
historian who wrote an account of Libya, carried 
his obloquy so far, as to satirise both his moral 
character, and his public testimonial to Hermias, in 
a severe epigram, thus rendered : 
An empty shrine to Eubulus’s slave 
The amorous eunuch — Aristotle gave, 
Himself as empty ; who, from brute desire, 
-Forsook the school for pleasure’s filthy mire. 
These scandalous imputations were answered by 
Apellicon, a philosopher of Teios, who wrote several 
books on purpose, wherein he elaborately confutes 
those who dared, in this manner (as he expresses it) 
“ to blaspheme the name of so great a man." 
The moderate policy which Mentor, in his first 
transactions at Atarna, found it necessary to assume, 
enabled Aristotle to avoid the punishment which 
naturally overtook the ambition of his friend. By a 
timely flight he escaped to Mitylene, in the island of 
Lesbos, in company with Pythias, the kinswoman 
and adopted daughter of Hermias, whom that prince 
