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tural love of military glory which afterwards. carried 
him over the finest regions of the East, and taught 
him to weep for want of more worlds to conquer.* 
But the bard of Troy was not his only companion 
in these foreign expeditions. Plutarch says, that as 
he could find no hooks in the upper provinces of Asia, 
he wrote to Harpalus, and obtained most of the trage- 
dies of Euripides, Sophocles, and TEschylus, with the 
Dithyrambics ofTelcstus and Philoxenus. The same 
author alleges that Aristotle taught him the art of 
medicine, a study with which he was not only ex- 
ceedingly delighted in theory, but which he prac- 
tised with considerable success among his friends. 
That ethics and politics formed a prominent and 
most important ingredient in the education of the 
juvenile prince, is obvious from the writings which 
the Stagirite devoted to the subject. He addressed 
to his pupil, long after this period, a Treatise on Go- 
vernment, instructing him how to reign, and exhort- 
ing him to adjust the measure of his authority to the 
particular characters, habits, and modes of thinking, 
of the various classes of his subjects, according to a 
maxim which he frequently inculcated, that different 
nations require different modes of administration. 
In his treatise on politics, he has carefully delineated 
the plan of education best adapted to persons of the 
* Plutarch says, that as soon as Alexander landed in Asia, 
he visited Ilium, and offered libations to the Trojan heroes. 
He anointed the pillar on the tomb of Achilles with oil, 
and ran round it naked, after which he put a crown upon 
it, exclaiming how happy that hero was in having a Homer 
to record his praise* 
