He could also excellently divine the good and evil which lay hid in the unseen future.

In fine, whether we consider the extent of his natural powers, or the slightness of his application, this extraordinary man must be allowed to have surpassed all others in the faculty of intuitively meeting an emergency.
Disease was the real cause of his death; though there is a story of his having ended his life by poison, on finding himself unable to fulfil his promises to the king.

However this may be, there is a monument to him in the marketplace of Asiatic Magnesia.

He was governor of the district, the King having given him Magnesia, which brought in fifty talents a year, for bread, Lampsacus, which was considered to be the richest wine country, for wine, and Myos for other provisions.

His bones, it is said, were conveyed home by his relatives in accordance with his wishes, and interred in Attic ground.