CHAP. II.
His profession of Philosophy.
a 1.1 PLato dying in the first year of the 108th Olympiad, Theophilus being Archon, Speusippus succeeded him in the School of the Academy,b 1.2 whom he followed also in his Doctrine.
He first, as Theodorus affirmes, looked into the community and mutuall assistance of Mathematicall Disciplines, as Plato did into that of the Philosophicall.
c 1.3 He first, according to Cenaeus, declared those things, which Isocrates conceived not to be divulged, the same perhaps which d 1.4 Cicero calls the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 of Isocrates.
e 1.5 He affirmed, that the minde was not the same, either with Good or One; but of a peculiar nature proper to it selfe.
f 1.6 He set up in the School which Plato had built the Images of the Graces.
He exacted mony of his Disciples, contrary to the custome of Plato.
The two Women who were Plato's Auditors, Lasthenia the Mantinean, and Axiothea the Phliasian, heard Speusippus like∣wise.
Having continued Master of the School eight years, he at last, by reason of his infirm disposition, much debilitated by the Palsie, sent to Xenocrates, desiring him to come and take from him the government of the School, which Xenocrates did.