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sion of sleep and food seemed fitted to relax and 
impede. 
By degrees the number of his auditors increased 
so much, that he was obliged to desist from walk- 
ing, and deliver his prelections sitting. The cele- 
brity of the teacher speedily conferred a renown on 
the Lycfeum, which eclipsed that of its rival, and 
which has made the very name famous to all poste- 
rity. Among his friends and disciples at this time 
were numbered some of the most eminent men of 
letters and philosophy in Greece. Not to mention 
Antipater, the governor of Macedon, and successor 
of Alexander, to whom he gave instructions; his 
school could boast of Theophrastus, who wrote the 
History of Plants, and a vast number of other works 
— of Phanias, a celebrated logician — of Eudemus 
of Rhodes, known for his analytical and geometrical 
writings — of Eudemus of Cyprus, whom Aristotle 
honoured so highly as to call his “ Dialogue of the 
Soul” after his name — of Dicmarchus, an orator and 
geometrician, whom Plutarch ranks among the best 
of philosophers — of Aristoxenus, whose ingratitude 
has already been mentioned, as the calumniator of 
his master — of Hipparchus of Stagira — Leon the 
sophist — iEschiron, a heroic poet of Mitylene — 
Hieronimus the Rhodian — Heraclides of Pontus, a 
noted philologist — all of whom, with many others, are 
acknowledged to have studied in the Lycteum, where 
the attendance was so numerous and distinguished, 
that Nicander of Alexandria wrote a book expressly 
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