Book 5
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Favorinus in his Miscellaneous History affirms that Aristotle was the first to compose a forensic speech in his own defence written for this very suit; and he cites him as saying that at AthensHom. Od. vii. 120. Pear upon pear grows old and fig upon fig.There must have been a chapter in Favorinus dealing with inventions.
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According to Apollodorus in his Chronology he was born in the first year of the 99th Olympiad.384-383 b.c. He attached himself to Plato and resided with him twenty years, having become his pupil at the age of seventeen. He went to Mitylene in the archonship of Eubulus in the fourth year of the 108th Olympiad.345-344 b.c. When Plato died in the first year of that Olympiad,347-346 b.c. during the archonship of Theophilus, he went to Hermias and stayed with him three years.
