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age of seventeen and joined the school of Socrates, and that it was only three years later that he commenced studying under Plato. We note that this would make the last event take place 365 B.C. which differs by just three years from the date given by Epicurus and Timaeus. This might be explained by supposing that they understood 365 B.C. to be the year in which Aristotle came to Athens, and that they subtracted three years so as to allow for the interval when he had not yet met Plato. A less probably explanation would be that the account arose from mistaking the year 365 B.C. usually the yaer of Aristotle's arrival in Athens, for the year at which he began study directly under PLato. As for the statement that he conversed with Socrates for three years, which is of course, absurd, I think it is readily explained without occourse to Geller's gratuitious hypothesis that Aristotle studied for three years under