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In the archonship of Pythodotus, in the second year of the 109th Olympiad,342-341 b.c. he went to the court of Philip, Alexander being then in his fifteenth year. His arrival at Athens was in the second year of the 111th Olympiad,335-334 b.c. and he lectured in the Lyceum for thirteen years; then he retired to Chalcis in the third year of the 114th Olympiad322-321 b.c. and died a natural death, at the age of about sixty-three, in the archonship of Philocles, in the same year in which Demosthenes died at Calauria. It is said that he incurred the king’s displeasure because he had introduced Callisthenes to him, and that Alexander, in order to cause him annoyance, honoured Anaximenes No doubt Anaximenes of Lampsacus (cf. supra, ii. § 3), to whom is attributed the Rhetorica ad Alexandrum, which has come down to us in the Aristotelian Corpus. and sent presents to Xenocrates.
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Theocritus of Chios, according to Ambryon in his book On Theocritus, ridiculed him in an epigram which runs as followsAnth. Plan. ii. 46.: To Hermias the eunuch, the slave withal of Eubulus, an empty monument was raised by empty-witted Aristotle, who by constraint of a lawless appetite chose to dwell at the mouth of the Borborus [muddy stream] rather than in the Academy. Timon again attacked him in the lineFrag. 36 D.: No, nor yet Aristotle’s painful futility.Cf. Hom. Il. xxiii. 701.
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Such then was the life of the philosopher. I have also come across his will, which is worded thus:
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All will be well; but, in case anything should happen, Aristotle has made these dispositions. Antipater is to be executor in all matters and in general;
