That _Aristotle_ drowned himself in _Euripus_, as despairing to resolve the cause of its reciprocation, or ebb and flow seven times a day, with this determination, _Si quidem ego non capio te, tu capies me_, was the assertion of _Procopius_, _Nazianzen_, _Justin Martyr_, and is generally believed amongst us. Wherein, because we perceive men have but an imperfect knowledge, some conceiving _Euripus_ to be a River, others not knowing where or in what part to place it; we first advertise, it generally signifieth any strait, fret, or channel of the Sea, running between two shoars, as _Julius Pollux_ hath defined it; as we read of _Euripus Hellespontiacus_, _Pyrrhæus_, and this whereof we treat, _Euripus Euboicus_ or _Chalcidicus_, that is, a narrow passage of Sea dividing _Attica_, and the Island of _Eubœa_, now called _Golfo de Negroponte_, from the name of the Island and chief City thereof; famous in the wars of _Antiochus_, and taken from the _Venetians_ by _Mahomet_ the Great. [Sidenote: _Touching the death of_ Aristotle.] Now that in this _Euripe_ or fret of _Negropont_, and upon the occasion mentioned, _Aristotle_ drowned himself, as many affirm, and almost all believe, we have some room to doubt. For without any mention of this, we find two ways delivered of his death by _Diogenes Laertius_, who expresly treateth thereof; the one from _Eumolus_ and _Phavorimus_, that being accused of impiety for composing an Hymn unto _Hermias_ (upon whose Concubine he begat his son _Nichomachus_) he withdrew into _Chalcis_, where drinking poison he died; the Hymn is extant in _Laertius_, and the fifteenth book of _Athenæus_. Another by _Apollodorus_, that he died at _Chalcis_ of a natural death and languishment of stomach, in his sixty third, or great Climacterical year; and answerable hereto is the account of _Suidas_ and _Censorinus_. And if that were clearly made out, which _Rabbi Ben Joseph_ affirmeth, he found in an _Egyptian_ book of _Abraham Sapiens Perizol_; that _Aristotle_ acknowledged all that was written in the Law of _Moses_, and became at last a Proselyte [SN: _Licetus_ de quæsitis, epist.]; it would also make improbable this received way of his death.