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But Alexander was also placed under the care of Aristotle, who acquired an influence over his mind and character, which is manifest to the latest period of his life. Leonidas early accustomed him to endure toil and hardship, but Lysimachus recommended himself to his royal pupil by obsequious flattery.

His early education was committed to Leonidas and Lysimachus, the former of whom was a relation of his mother's, and the latter an Acarnanian. His mother belonged to the royal house of Epeirus, and through her he traced his descent from the great hero Achilles. and Olympias, and he inherited much of the natural disposition of both of his parents-the cool forethought and practical wisdom of his father, and the ardent enthusiasm and ungovernable passions of his mother. （ *)Ale/candros), king of MACEDONIA, surnamed the Great, was born at Pella, in the autumn of B.