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Many other eminent teachers in those times appear to have

acquired great fortunes. Georgias made a present to the temple of

Delphi of his own statue in solid gold. We must not, I presume,

suppose that it was as large as the life. His way of living, as

well as that of Hippias and Protagoras, two other eminent

teachers of those times, is represented by Plato as splendid,

even to ostentation. Plato himself is said to have lived with a

good deal of magnificence. Aristotle, after having been tutor to

Alexander, and most munificently rewarded, as it is universally

agreed, both by him and his father, Philip, thought it worth

while, notwithstanding, to return to Athens, in order to resume

the teaching of his school. Teachers of the sciences were

probably in those times less common than they came to be in an

age or two afterwards, when the competition had probably somewhat

reduced both the price of their labour and the admiration for

their persons.