The five days debate at Cicero's house in Tusculum between master and sophister.

(h) As Theophrastus deploring the untimely death of Callisthenes his Fellow-Student.] Callisthenes the Olynthian was well known to Alexander the Great, having studied together under the same Tutor Aristotle. The King took him along with him to Pen the History of his Asian At∣chievements;

but the freedom of his Discourse, and un∣complying demeanor, wrought his overthrow. For when King Alexander, now Lord of Asia, requir'd of his Mace∣dons, to give him the Ceremony of Persian Adoration; he, with some others of the Macedonian Nobles, too openly de∣clar'd their dislike of it. The haughty young Victor could not brook, that the Majesty of his Empire, and with that, Grandeur improv'd, should be disputed by his Vasals; and therefore is said, under a colour of a Sham-Plot of Hermo∣laus, to have executed many of the Non-conforming No∣bility; but Calisthenes he first mangled and disfigured; cut off his Ears, Nose, and Lips; afterwards put him into a Cage with a Dog, and so carried him about whithersoever the Army march'd; till at last he dy'd with the torture and regret of Spirit. Theophrastus wrote a Book entitled Ca∣listhenes, or a Lamentation from whence this Passage is quoted,