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[Socrates?]. For Aristotle usually speaks of Plato's doctrines as those of Socrates' so that what may be meant was that he arrived in Athens and joined the Academy in the year beginning at the summer solstice of 367 B.C., and at once began the mathematical studies necessary before he would we admitted to the classes of Plato himself. But in the following year, it is generally believed, and rightly, I think, that Plato made his second voyage to [Syracuse?], the object of which was to induce the younger Dionysius, who had [receded?] to the throne to give him a place whwere he could establish his ideal for of government. It is said by Diogenes, whose [life?] of Plato is particularly careful, that Dionysius at first promised to do so, but that ultimately Plato became discouraged and returned. It is most likely that under those circumstances he would have remained two whole years in Syracuse, so that allowing for the two voyages and for the interval when Aristotle's arrival and Plato's