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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
“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
“[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
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’