[Footnote 10: It is to this period of Aristotle's life that the passage extracted from his letters in Demetrius (so-called [Greek: peri\ E(rmênei/as]) refers. [Greek: ô(s A)ristote/lês phêsi/n--e)gô\ e)k me\n A)thênô=n ei)s Sta/geira ê)=lthon dia\ to\n basile/a to\n me/gan, e)k de\ Stagei/rôn ei)s A)thê/nas dia\ to\n cheimô=na to\n me/gan]--s. 29. We shall hardly consider this double employment of the epithet [Greek: **me/gan] as an instance of that success in epistolary style, which Demetrius ascribes to Aristotle (s. 239); but the passage proves Aristotle's visits both to Stageira and to Athens. The very cold winters of the Chalkidic peninsula were severely felt by the Greeks (Plato--Symposion, p. 220), and may well have served as motive to Aristotle for going from Stageira to Athens.] [Footnote 11: Ammonius, Vit. Aristot. See the curious statements given by Dion Chrysostom, out of the epistles of Aristotle; Orat. ii. p. 100, xlvii. p. 225, Reiske. Respecting the allusions made in these statements to various persons who were reluctant to return out of the separate villages into the restored city, compare what Xenophon says about the [Greek: dioi/kisis], and subsequent restitution, of Mantineia; Hellenica, v. 2, 1-8, vi. 5, 3-6.] [Footnote 12: Plutarch, Alexander, c. 7. What Plutarch calls the _Nymphæum_, is considered by Stahr (Aristotelia, i. p. 93 n.) to be probably the same as what Pliny denominates the _Museum_ at Stageira (N. H. xvi. c. 23); but Zeller (p. 23, n.), after Geier, holds that Mieza lay S.W. of Pella, in Emathia, far from Stageira. Plutarch seems to imply that Aristotle was established along with Alexander at Meiza by Philip. Compare, for these facts of the biography of Aristotle, Stahr, Aristotelia, Part I., pp. 86-94, 103-106. I conceive that it was during this residence in Macedonia and at Pella, that Aristotle erected the cenotaph in honour of Hermeias, which is so contemptuously derided by the Chian poet Theokritus in his epigram, Diog. L. v. 11. The epigram is very severe on Aristotle, for preferring Pella to the Academy as a residence; ascribing such preference to the exigencies of an ungovernable stomach.]