of Iraeus. And he shall not owe anything either to Lampy rio or to Lampyr io’s heirs, but shall have a full discharge from the whole transaction. Next, the executors shall give him 500 drachmas in money and one of the servants whom Arcesilaus shall approve, so that, in return for all the toil he has shared with me and all the services he has render ed me, he may have the means to maintain himself respectably. Further, I emancipate Diophantus, Diocles and Abus; and Simias I make over to Arcesilaus. I also emancipate Dromo. As soon as Arcesilaus has arrived, Iraeus shall, with Olympichus, Epicrates, and the other executors, prepare an account of the money expended upon the funera l and the other custom ary charge s. Whate ver money remains over, Arcesilaus shall take over from Olympichus, without however pressing him as to times and seasons. Arcesi laus shall also cancel the agreement made by Strato with Olympichus and Ameinias and deposited with Philocrates the son of Tisamenus. With regard to my monument they shall make it as Arcesilaus, Olympichus and Lyco shall approve.” Such are the terms of his extant will, according to the Collection of Ariston of Ceos. Strato himself , however, was, as stated above, a man entitle d to full approbation,? since he excelled in every branch of learning, and most of all in that which is styled ended with Theophrastus, whose successors were often held to be vastly inferior, and unworthy to rank beside him ; see Cicero, De Fin. v. §§ 12, 133 Strabo xiii. 609. The latter alleges as the reason for this decline the well-known story that the school was deprived of Aristotle’s library, which had been carried away to Scepsis.