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Son of Agathon or Agathanor; from Chalcedon;[1] pupil and, after Speusippus,[2] successor[3] of Plato;[4] his [successor was] Polemo[n],[5] and his Crantor.[6] Also, when Alexander of Macedon[7] sent him 30 talents of gold, he sent it back, saying that a king, not a philosopher, needs money. He wrote about Plato's Republic.

Ξενοκράτης, Ἀγάθωνος ἢ Ἀγαθάνορος, Χαλκηδόνιος, μαθητὴς καὶ διάδοχος μετὰ Σπεύσιππον Πλάτωνος: τοῦ δὲ Πολέμων, τοῦ δὲ Κράντωρ. καὶ πέμψαντος αὐτῷ τοῦ Μακεδόνος Ἀλεξάνδρου χρυσοῦ τάλαντα λ#, αὐτὸς ἀπέπεμψεν, εἰπών, βασιλέα δεῖσθαι χρημάτων, οὐ φιλόσοφον. ἔγραψε περὶ τῆς Πλάτωνος πολιτείας.

For Xenocrates see Simon Hornblower in OCD(3) s.v., and again xi 43. The present material begins, as Adler notes, by echoing Diogenes Laertius 4.6 (and for the Alexander anecdote cf. 4.8) but them draws on other sources, including two orations by Themistius.
[1] Opposite Byzantium at the southern entrance to the Black Sea. See chi 38.
[2] Speusippus: see sigma 928 (and under pi 1707).
[3] sc. as Head of the Academy (339-314).
[4] Plato: see pi 1707, pi 1709, pi 1711.
[5] Polemo(n): see pi 1887.
[6] Krantor: no dedicated Suda entry, but see (e.g.) under pi 1707.
[7] Alexander (the Great): alpha 1121.

D.Whitehead, "Xenocrates the metic", RhM 124 (1981) pp.223-244.
M.Ostwald and J.P.Lynch in The Cambridge Ancient History vol.6 (second edition, 1994) pp.610-12.

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