Plato was somewhat of a traveller, he three times visited Syracuse, and also travelled in Egypt.

As to the polypus, see "On Abundance of Friends," § ix.

As "Fumum et opes strepitumque Romæ."—Horace, "Odes," iii. 29. 12.

Homer, "Odyssey," xvi. 181.

As to these traits in Plato and Aristotle, compare "De Audiendis Poetis," § viii. And as to Alexander, Plutarch tells us in his Life that he used to hold his head a little to the left, "Life," p. 666 B. See also "De Alexandri Fortuna aut Virtute," § ii.