36 
MEMOIR OF ARISTOTLE. 
cessions in behalf of his friends and countrymen 
whenever his interest could be of service. The misfor- 
tunes, which, in the progress of Macedonian con- 
quest, lmd befallen his native city Stagira, gave 
him an opportunity of shewing the strength of his 
attachment to the place of his birth. Although he 
had not resided there, and appears scarcely to have 
visited it for the long period of thirty years, yet, 
through his representations at the Court of Pella, the 
town was entirely rebuilt, its walls and ornamental 
edifices were restored, and its wandering citizens 
collected and reinstated in their former possessions. 
He himself supplied them with a code of wise laws 
for the regulation of their government ; nor were the 
inhabitants on their part ungrateful for the generosity 
of their sovereign, and the patriotism of their fellow 
townsman. To commemorate the event, they insti- 
tuted annual festivals called Aristoteloea, and gave the 
name of Stagnates to the mouth in which they were 
celebrated. Authors have recorded other examples 
of his exertions, in having, amidst the devastations of 
war, extended the patronage and secured the protec- 
tion of science. We learn from Plutarch, that Philip, 
in testimony of the satisfactory manner in which he 
fulfilled his engagements as preceptor to his son, as- 
signed him a school and a study, called the Nym- 
phteum, at the neighbouring town of Mieza, where, 
Jong after his death, the shady walks and stone benches 
were pointed out still bearing his name. The same 
biographer mentions that Alexander, in reverence for 
