Note 28 — Chapter VI · PLATONIC CANON, AS RECOGNISED BY THRASYLLUS.
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Diog. L. v. 58. Straton became Scholarch at the death of Theophrastus in 287 B.C. He must have been preceptor to Ptolemy Philadelphus before this time, during the youth of the latter; for he could not have been at the same time Scholarch at Athens, and preceptor of the king at Alexandria.