whom Lampsacus gave birth. For ever wrestling with diseases, he died unawares or ever he felt the hand of death. There have been eight men who bore the name of Strato: (1) a pupil of Isocrates; (2) our subject ; (3) a physician, a disciple, or, as some say, a fosterchild, of Erasistratus ; (4) a historian, who treated of the struggle of Philip and Perseus against the Romans ; (5) x «3 (6) a poet who wrote epigrams ; (7) a physician who lived in ancient times, mentioned by Aristotle ; (8) a Peripatetic philosopher who lived in Alexandria. But to return to Strato the physicist. His will is also extant and it runs as follows : ‘In case anything should happen to me I make these dispositions. All the goods in my house I give and bequeath to Lampyrio and Arcesilaus. From the money belonging to me in Athens, in the first place my executors shall provide for my funeral and for all that custom requires to be done after the funeral, without extravagance on the one hand or meanness on the other. The executors of this my will shall be Olympichus, Aristides, Mnesigenes, Hippocrates, Epicrates, Gorgylus, Diocles, Lyco, Athanes. I leave the school to Lyco, since of the rest some are too old and others too busy. But it would be well if the others would co-operate with him. I also give and bequeath to him all my books, except those of which I am the author, and all the furniture in the dining-hall, the cushions and the drinking-cups. The trustees shall give Epicrates 500 drachmas and one of the servants whom Arcesilaus shall approve. And in the first place Lampyrio and Arcesilaus shall