[Footnote 41: Diog. L. v. 11. [Greek: E)/stai men eu)=; e)a\n de/ ti sumbai/nê|, ta/de die/theto A)ristote/lês; e)pi/tropon me\n ei)=nai pa/ntôn kai\ dia\ panto\s A)nti/patron], &c. The testament of Aristotle was known to Hermippus (Athenæus, xiii. p. 589) about a century later than Aristotle, and the most ancient known authority respecting the facts of his life. Stahr (Aristotelia, vol. i. 159) and Brandis (Arist. p. 62) suppose that what Diogenes gives is only an extract from the will; since nothing is said about the library, and Aristotle would not omit to direct what should be done with a library which he so much valued. But to this I reply, that there was no necessity for his making any provision about the library; he had left it at Athens along with his school, in the care of Theophrastus. He wished it to remain there, and probably considered it as an appendage to the school; and it naturally would remain there, if he said nothing about it in his testament. We must remember (as I have already intimated) that when Aristotle left Athens, he only contemplated being absent for a time; and intended to come back and resume his school, when Macedonian supremacy should be re-established.] [Footnote 42: Pausanias (vi. 4, 5) describes a statue of Aristotle which he saw at Olympia: the fact by which Aristotle was best known both to him and to the guides, seems to have been the friendship first of Alexander, next of Antipater.] [Footnote 43: Diog. L. v. 12. [Greek: e(/ôs d' a)\n Nika/nôr katala/bê|, e)pimelei=sthai A)ristome/nên, Ti/marchon, I(/pparchon, Diote/lên, Theo/phraston, e)a\n bou/lêtai kai\ e)nde/chêtai au)tô=|, tô=n te paidi/ôn kai\ E(rpulli/dos kai\ tô=n kataleleimme/nôn.] The four persons here named were probably present at Chalkis, so that Aristotle could count upon them; but at the time when this will was made, Theophrastus was at Athens, conducting the Aristotelian school; and in the critical condition of Grecian politics, there was room for doubt how far he could securely or prudently act in this matter. The words of Diogenes--[Greek: e(/ôs d' a)\n Nika/nôr katala/bê|]--are rendered in the improved translation of the edition by Firmin Didot, "_quoad vero Nicanor adolescat," &c. I cannot think this a correct understanding, either of the words or of the fact. Nikanor was not a minor under age, but an officer on active service. The translation given by Ménage appears to me more true--"_tantisper dum redux sit Nicanor:_" (ad. D. L. v. 12.)] [Footnote 44: Diog. L. v. 12. [Greek: ô(s kai\ patê\r ô)\n kai\ a)delpho/s].] [Footnote 45: Diog. L. v. 13. In following the phraseology of this testament, we remark that when Aristotle makes allusion to these inauspicious possibilities--the death of Nikanor or of Pythias, he annexes to them a deprecatory phrase: [Greek: e)a\n de\ tê=| paidi\ sumbê=|--o(\ mê\ ge/noito ou)de\ e)/stai], &c.]