CHAP. IV.
His death.
a 1.1 WHen he drew nigh the end of his life, he bequeathed all his estate to his brother Pylades; to which end, Moereas not knowing it, he sent him first to Chios, and from thence sent for him back again to Athens. He sent three Copies of his Will, one to Amphicritus at Eretria, an other to some friends of his at Athens, the third to Thaumasias his neer kinsman, to be kept by them; with the last he sent this Letter.
Arcesilaus to Thaumasias, health.
I Gave Diogenes my Will to bring to you, for being often sick and in∣firm of body, I thought fit to make my Will, lest if any suddain acci∣dent should befall me, I should depart this life with some in••urie done to you, whom I have found so bountifull towards me. I desire that you, the most faithfull of all my friends, will take it into your custody. Ap∣prove your selfe iust to that extraordinary trust which I have reposed in you, that it may appear I have made a right choice.
He died, as Hermippus saith, in a kinde of phrenzy, after he had drunk much Wine, 75 years old, in the fourth year of the 134th Olympiad, as may be conjectured from the succession of Lacydes, in the School which began at that time. The Athenians buried him with such solemnity as never any was before.
He took not any women into the house with him, neither