Vitae philosophorum

And in his correspondence he replaces the usual greeting, I wish you joy, by wishes for welfare and right living, May you do well, and Live well.

Ariston[*](This is no doubt the Academic philosopher, Ariston of Alexandria, pupil of Antiochus, criticized by Philodemus in his Rhetoric, V.H.2 iii. 168.) says in his Life of Epicurus that he derived his work entitled The Canon from the Tripod of Nausiphanes, adding that Epicurus had been a pupil of this man as well as of the Platonist Pamphilus[*](Cf. Suidas, s.v.; Cic. N.D. i. 72.) in Samos. Further, that he began to study philosophy when he was twelve years old, and started his own school at thirty-two.

He was born, according to Apollodorus in his Chronology, in the third year of the 109th Olympiad, in the archonship of Sosigenes,[*](341 b.c.) on the seventh day of the month Gamelion,[*](The eighth month of the Attic civil year. Thus he would be born about February, 341 b.c. Plato died 347 b.c.) in the seventh year after the death of Plato.