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of Plato when he was thirty years old, therefore writeen a year of August 362 B.C. This account was accepted by one [Eumulus?], in his Histories. The other accound, which seems to have been derived from the "Lives of the Philosophers" of [Hermiphus?] who was bron about 220 B.C. and which was adopted (so says Diogenes Laertuis) by the careful chronologer Apollodorus, and which we know to have been confidently accepted by excellent ancient scholars, and which one [finds?] in the ancient biographies of Aristotle by Ammonius and by another write, the latter edited by Robbe, a work which shows unusual comprehension of Aristotle's situation, Aristotle was only 60 at his death, and was born [Ol. 99.1?], that is 384 - 383 B.C., and that he was only seventeen when he went to Athens and began studying the philosophy of Plato, that is, written the year 368 B.C. But here occurs a peculiar feature in the testimont of which our hypothesis, whatever it may be, ought to explain. Namely, the two biographies I [just?] mentioned both say that Aristotle came to Athens at the