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-“Speusippus: —Son of Eurymedon, nephew of Plato the philosopher ... disciple of Plato himself, and his successor in the Academy in the 108th Olympiad （348-5 B.C.）. He wrote a great many works, particularly on philosophy. He was austere in disposition and exceedingly quick-tempered.” Suidas Lexicon +“Speusippus: —Son of Eurymedon, nephew of Plato the philosopher ... disciple of Plato himself, and his successor in the Academy in the 108th Olympiad （348-5 B.C.）. He wrote a great many works, particularly on philosophy. He was austere in disposition and exceedingly quick-tempered.”  
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-“It is said that the Athenian Speusippus was so fond of money that he composed frigid poems to celebrate Casander's marriage and went and sang them publicly in Macedonia for a fee.” Philostratus Life of Apollonius+“It is said that the Athenian Speusippus was so fond of money that he composed frigid poems to celebrate Casander's marriage and went and sang them publicly in Macedonia for a fee.”  
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-“[Speusippus]: He left a very large number of Notes and several Dialogues including ... a Eulogy of Plato .” Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers+“[Speusippus]: He left a very large number of Notes and several Dialogues including ... a Eulogy of Plato .”  
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-Plato's body lies here in the bosom of Earth, but his godlike soul hath her place among the Blessed.1+//Plato's body lies here in the bosom of Earth, but his godlike soul hath her place among the Blessed.1//
  
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 1 cf. Diog. L. 3. 44, who adds ‘the son of Ariston, whom good men honour though they dwell afar, because he discerned the life divine’ 1 cf. Diog. L. 3. 44, who adds ‘the son of Ariston, whom good men honour though they dwell afar, because he discerned the life divine’
  
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