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return to Athens with his twenty year old son who [?] first say the city to which he belonged. Evidently, Epicurus, in intelligence brilliant to the highest degree, especially in his youth, was in a situation to hear all about Aristotle, whose death was one of the most important public events of the next year for Athens. How are we to explain Epicurus's so much mistaking Aristotle's age? In regard to Tinaeus, the difficulty is much greater. Here we have a historian of so much importance, especially in reference to chronology *,that the usual dates for the first five centuries of Greek history [proper?] probably depend mainly on his researches, and who at the time of Aristotle's death was no less a personage than the tyrant of Taormina, where he is reverenced to this day, so that he was in a position where he would be well able to satisfy his thirst for chronological

*Thus, his severe critic Polybius says, "We all know that this is a specialty of Timaeus's and that it is in this that the he has surpassed all other historians, -I mean his parade of accuracy in studying chronology and ancient monuments, and his care in that department of research." xii [?] Fr, of Shuckburgh).