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 | | He left his property, consisting of the garden (Kijiroi E7ru~oi~pou), a house in Melite (the south-west quarter of Athens), and apparently some funds besides, to two trustees on behalf of his society, and for the special interest of some youthful members. |
| | The garden was set apart for the use of the school; the house became the house of Hermarchus and his fellow-philosophers during his lifetime. |
| | Besides similar tributes in honor of his brothers and Polyaenus, he directed the trustees to be guardians of the son of Polyaenus and the son of Metrodorus; whilst the daughter of the last mentioned was to be married by the guardians to some member of the society who should be approved of by Hermarchus. |
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