whom every good man, even if he dwell afar off, honours because he discerned the divine life. And a third of later date ®: A. Eagle, why fly you o’er this tomb? Say, is your gaze fixed upon the starry house of one of the immortals? B. | am the image of the soul of Plato, which has soared to Olympus, while his earth-born body rests in Attic soil. There is also an epitaph of my own which runs thus °: If Phoebus did not cause Plato to be born in Greece, how came it that he healed the minds of men by letters ? As the god’s son Asclepius is a healer of the body, so is Plato of the immortal soul. And another on the manner of his death¢: Phoebus gave to mortals Asclepius and Plato, the one to save their souls, the other to save their bodies. From a wedding banquet he has passed to that city which he had founded for himself and planted in the sky. Such then are his epitaphs. His disciples were Speusippus of Athens, Xenocrates of Chalcedon, Aristotle of Stagira, Philippus of Opus, Hestiaeus of Perinthus, Dion of Syracuse, Amyclus of Heraclea, Erastus and Coriscus of Scepsus, Timolaus of Cyzicus, Euaeon of Lampsacus, Python and Heraclides of Aenus, Hippothales and Callippus of Athens, Demetrius of Amphipolis, Heraclides of Pontus, and many others, among them two women, Lastheneia of Mantinea and Axiothea of Phlius, who is reported by Dicaearchus to have worn men’s clothes. Some say that Theophrastus too attended his lectures. Chamaeleon adds Hyper-