Note 27 — Chapter VI · PLATONIC CANON, AS RECOGNISED BY THRASYLLUS.
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Diog. L. v. 37. Probably this invitation was sent about 306 B.C., during the year in which Theophrastus was in banishment from Athens, in consequence of the restrictive law proposed by Sophokles against the schools of the philosophers, which law was repealed in the ensuing year.