Tutor of Alexander the Great

Exam 2

An Philippus, rēx Macedonum, voluisset Alexandrō, fīliō suō, …

Whether Philip, king of the Macedonians, had wished for Alexander, his own son, …

… prīma elementa litterārum trādī ab Aristotele, …

… the first elements of letters to be handed down by Aristotle, …

… summō eius aetātis philosophō, …

… the greatest philosopher of his age, …

… aut hic suscēpisset illud maximum officium, …

… or whether he (Aristotle) would have undertaken that greatest duty, …

… nisi initia studiōrum pertinēre ad summam sapientissimē crēdidisset?

… unless he had most wisely believed that the beginnings of studies pertain to greatness?