[Footnote 3: Epikurus and Timæus. [Greek: E)pi/kouros e)n tê=| peri\ e)pitêdeuma/tôn e)pistolê=|] (Eusebius, Præp. Ev. xv. 5)--Diogen. L. x. 8; Ælian. V. H. v. 9.] [Footnote 4: An author named Eumêlus (cited by Diogenes, v. 6, [Greek e)n tê=| pe/mptê| tô=n i(storiô=n], but not otherwise known) stated that Aristotle came to Plato at the age of thirty, and that he lived altogether to seventy years of age, instead of sixty-three, as Hermippus and Apollodorus affirmed. Eumêlus conceived Aristotle as born in 392 B.C., and coming to Plato in 362 B.C. His chronological data are in harmony with the statements of Epikurus and Timæus respecting the early life of Aristotle. The [Greek: Bi/os A)nô/numos] given by Ménage recognizes two distinct accounts as to the age at which Aristotle died: one assigning to him 70 years, the other only 63.] [Footnote 5: See the Fragments of Timæus in Didot, Fragmenta Historicorum Græcorum, Fr. 70-74; also Aristokles, ap. Eusebium, Præp. Evang. xv. 2; Diogenes, L. x. 8; Athenæus, viii. p. 354. Timæus called Aristotle [Greek: _sophistê\n o)psimathê=_ kai\ misêto/n, kai\ to\ poluti/mêton i)atrei=on a)rti/ôs a)pokekeiko/ta]. The speaker in Athenæus designates him as [Greek: o( pharmakopô/lês]. The terms used by these writers are illtempered and unbecoming in regard to so great a man as Aristotle; but this is irrelevant to the question, whether they do not describe, in perverted colouring, some real features in his earlier life, or whether there was not, at least, a chronological basis of possibility for them. That no such features were noticed by other enemies of Aristotle, such as Eubulides and Kephisodôrus, is a reason as far as it goes for not believing them to be real, yet not at all a conclusive reason; nor is the speaker in Athenæus exact when he says that Epikurus is the _only_ witness, for we find Timæus making the same statements. The [Greek: i)atrei=on] (see Antiphanes, apud Polluc. iv. 183--Fragmenta Comic. cxxv., Meineke) of a Greek physician (more properly we should call the [Greek: i)atro\s] _a general practitioner and chemist_) was the repository of his materials and the scene of his important operations; for many of which instructions are given in the curious Hippokratic treatise entitled [Greek: Kat' I)êtrei=on], vol. iii. pp. 262-337 of the edition of M. Littré, who in his preface to the treatise, p. 265, remarks about Aristotle:--"Il paraît qu'Aristote, qui était de famille médicale, avoit renoncé à une officine de ce genre, d'une grande valeur." Stahr speaks of this [Greek: i)atrei=on] as if Aristotle had set up one _at Athens_ (Aristotelia, p. 38), which the authorities do not assert; it was probably at Stageira. Ideler (Comm. **ad Aristot. Meteorol. iv. 3, 16, p. 433) considers this story about Aristotle's [Greek: i)atrei=on] to have been a fiction arising out of various expressions in his writings about the preparation of drugs--[Greek: ta\ pha/rmaka e(/psein], &c. I think this is far-fetched.