Secondly, the agent If we may trust Ulpian, this was Hermeias of Atarneus , the friend of Aristotle, seized by the Rhodian Mentor and carried captive to the king of Persia . See Grote, c. 90. who was privy to all Philip’s schemes against the king of Persia has been kidnapped, and the king will hear of all these plots, not as the complaint of Athenians, whom he might suspect of speaking for our own private advantage, but from the lips of the very man who planned and carried them out, so that their credit is established, and the only suggestion for our ambassadors to make is one which the king would be delighted to hear,