CHAP. XIII.
His Wives and Children.
HE had two wives, the first Pythais, sister to Hermias, the Eu∣nuch, Tyrant of Atarna, and his adopted heir. Of the scan∣dals that were cast upon him by this marriage, Aristotle fully acquits himselfe in his Epistles to An ipater, where he profes∣seth, that he married her only out of t••e good will which he bore unto Hermias, and out of a compassion, for the great mis∣fortunes that had happened to her Brother; adding, that she was a woman endowed with extraordinary modesty, and all other vertues.
His second wife was named Herpylis, a woman of Stagira, whom Apellico (cited by Eusebius) and (per••aps from him) ••u••∣das affirm, he married after the death of Pythais: With her he lived to his end, as Hermippus, cited by Athenaeus, and ••imothaeus, by Laertius affirm. Timaeus, a profess'd calumniator of Aristotle, saith, she was his Concubine, and that Aristo••le lived with her, following the counsell of Hesiod in his Georgi••ks; from which calumny, Hesiod is fully vindicated by Proclus.
By Herpylis he had one son, asa 1.1 Apellico affirmeth, whom he named after his own Father Nicomachus: To him he dedicated his great Moralls, whichb 1.2 Cicero thinks to have been written by Nicomachus himselfe: For I see not, saith he, why the son might not be like the Father.
c 1.3 This Nicomachus was a disciple of Theophrastus, and much be∣loved