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Logic IV 32.
ancient philosophers. Diogenes reports that Apollodorus says it happened in the archonship of Theophilus that is Ol. 108.1 or from 348 BC to 347 BC and this is confirmed by Dionysius of Halicaruasus and Athenaeus. Various authors say he was 81 years old which with ancient writes often means nearly 87 and Seneca says he died on his birthday. If he died 7 Thangelion 347 BC this would make his putative birth 428 BC on the 7th Thangelion. But if we suppose he was really born later in that summer Cicero the best authority of all would be right in saying that he died in his 81st year. Dionysius seems to mean the same thing when he says he continued writings or revising his works up to his 80th year. But Athenaeus and Velerius Maximus say he was 82 a very common way of reckoning with the ancients if he was 81 Diagenes say that [Neanthes?] makes him 84. We may explain this as meaning 21 Olympiads counting both extremes. On the whole the one hypothesis which explains every item of testimony is that

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