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19 from Greek and Roman Materials

1. Charles Short, Charlton T. Lewis, A Latin Dictionary alphabetic letter A, entry A^risto^te^les
   Aristotle, a very learned and distinguished pupil of Plato, from Stagira, in Macedonia, teacher of Alexander the Great, and founder of the Peripatetic philosophy, ; ; ; ; ; —Hence, (45.36)

2. Perseus Encyclopedia alphabetic letter S
   Stagira (13.05)

3. A dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology (ed. William Smith) alphabetic letter P
   She was married three times : her first husband being Nicanor of Stagira, a relative of Aristotle; her second Procles, a descendant of Demaratus, king of Sparta ; and her third Metrodorus, the physician (Sext. (12.72)

4. Perseus Encyclopedia alphabetic letter A
   of Stagira: statue of: (11.46)

5. A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890) (eds. G. E. Marindin, William Smith, LLD, William Wayte) alphabetic letter M
   at Stagira. (11.17)

6. Henry George Liddell, Robert Scott, A Greek-English Lexicon alphabetic letter *s111, entry *sta/gi_ros
   from Stagira, in . (9.81)

7. Strabo, Geography (eds. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.)
   Stagirus, Stagira, t. of Macedonia, i. 512, 513. (8.61)

8. Strabo, Geography (eds. H.C. Hamilton, Esq., W. Falconer, M.A.) book 7, chapter fragments, section 35
   First in the gulf, after the harbour of Acanthus, is Stagira, now deserted: it was one of the Chalcidic cities, and the birth-place of Aristotle. (8.39)

9. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter M
   at Stagira, Aristotle's birthplace. (7.97)

10. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter A
    The most northerly and one of the largest islands of the Cyclades, southeast of Euboea, twenty-one miles long and eight broad, early attained importance, and colonized Acanthus and Stagira about B.C. 654. (6.65)

11. Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander chapter 15, section 10
    By 340 he had probably returned to Stagira, and in 335 Aristotle founded his own informal philosophical school in Athens named the Lyceum, later called the Peripatetic School after the covered walkway ( (6.48)

12. Thomas R. Martin, An Overview of Classical Greek History from Mycenae to Alexander chapter 15, section 10
    The son of a wealthy doctor from Stagira in northern Greece, Aristotle came to Athens at the age of seventeen to study in Plato's Academy, where he stayed until the death of Plato in 348/7. (5.54)

13. Perseus Encyclopedia alphabetic letter A
    Aristotle was born in Stagira, a small town in northern Greece, in 384 BCE. (5.54)

14. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter A
    A great philosopher, the son of Nicomachus, court physician to Philip II. of Macedon, and born in B.C. 384 at Stagira, a small town in the Thracian Chalcidicé. (4.99)

15. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter P
    The most important among Plato's disciples is Aristotle of Stagira (384-322), who shares with his master the title of the greatest philosopher of antiquity. (4.87)

16. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter A
    Aristotle did not forget, in this influential position, the town of his birth, but obtained from Alexander that Stagira, which had been destroyed by Philip, should be rebuilt. (4.87)

17. Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (eds. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A., John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S.) book 4, chapter 17
    The town also of Cassera, and then the other side of the Isthmus, after which come Acanthus, Stagira, Sithone, Heraclea, and the country of Mygdonia that lies below, in which are situate, at some distance from the sea, Apollonia and Arethusa. (4.39)

18. Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898) alphabetic letter S
    ), subsequently Stagīra ( (3.95)

19. Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (eds. H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A., John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S.) book 16, chapter 57
    A similar circumstance is said to have taken place also at Philippi, where a willow, which had fallen down, and the top of which had been taken off, rose again; and at Stagira, in the Museum there, where the same thing occurred to a white poplar; all which events were looked upon as favourable omens. (3.75)