Elegy and Iambus. with an English Translation by. J. M. Edmonds. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 2. 

====== Speusippus: Poems ======


“Speusippus: —Son of Eurymedon, nephew of Plato the philosopher ... disciple of Plato himself, and his successor in the Academy in the 108th Olympiad （348-5 B.C.）. He wrote a great many works, particularly on philosophy. He was austere in disposition and exceedingly quick-tempered.” 

Suidas Lexicon 

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“It is said that the Athenian Speusippus was so fond of money that he composed frigid poems to celebrate Casander's marriage and went and sang them publicly in Macedonia for a fee.” 

Philostratus Life of Apollonius

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“[Speusippus]: He left a very large number of Notes and several Dialogues including ... a Eulogy of Plato .” 

Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers




===== Inscription =====

“Speusippus: —

//Plato's body lies here in the bosom of Earth, but his godlike soul hath her place among the Blessed.1//


Planudean Anthology


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1 cf. Diog. L. 3. 44, who adds ‘the son of Ariston, whom good men honour though they dwell afar, because he discerned the life divine’