Nay, Alexander himself, in the letters which he wrote
soon after to Craterus, Attalus, and Alcetas, tells them
that the young men who were put to the torture, de-
clared they had entered into the conspiracy of themselves,
without any others being privy to, or guilty of it. But
yet afterwards, in a letter to Antipater, he accuses Callis-
thenes. " The young men," he says, " were stoned to
death by the Macedonians, but for the sophist," (meaning
Callisthenes,) "I will take care to punish him with them
too who sent him to me, and who harbor those in their
cities who conspire against my life," an unequivocal decla-
ration against Aristotle, in whose house Callisthenes, for
his relationship's sake, being his niece Hero's son, had been
educated. His death is variously related. Some say he
was hanged by Alexander's orders ; others, that he died
of sickness in prison ; but Chares writes he was kept in
chains seven months after he was apprehended, on pur-
pose that he might be proceeded against in full council,
when Aristotle should be present ; and that growing very
fat, and contracting a disease of vermin, he there died,
about the time that Alexander was wounded in India, in
the country of the Malli Oxydracaa,[1] all which came to
pass afterwards.
For to go on in order, Demaratus of Corinth, now quite an old man, had made a great effort, about this time, to pay Alexander a visit ; and when he had seen him, said he pitied the misfortune of those Grecians, who were so un- happy as to die before they had beheld Alexander seated on the throne of Darius. But he did not long enjoy the benefit of the king's kindness for him, any otherwise than that soon after falling sick and dying, he had a maguifi-
- ↑ One of these names must be from the omitted, as the Malli and Oxydrcæ are distinet tribes. Probably the whole clause has been interpolated margin, where one annotator may have named the Malli. and another the Oxydracas, Plutarch having merely said, in India.
