CHAP. 3.—PARTICULARS RELATIVE TO CHRYSIPPUS AND ERASIS-
TRATUS.
In the rules laid down by these professors, changes were
effected by Chrysippus with a vast parade of words, and, after
Chrysippus, by Erasistratus, son[1] of the daughter of Aristotle.
For the cure of King Antiochus-to give our first illustration
of the profits realized by the medical art-Erasistratus received from his son, King Ptolemæus, the sum of one hundred
talents.
1. Pythias, the daughter of Aristotle, was his stepmother, and adopted
him. His mother's name was Cretoxena.