SIMON 
A great many; among them, Aristoxenus the
musician, who deserves great consideration. The MSS. add: “and he himself was parasite to Neleus.” Both were pupils of Aristotle. Aristoxenus wrote a life of Plato, which was used by Diogenes Laertius. 
That Euripides was parasite to Archelaus until he
died, and Anaxarchus to Alexander, you surely
know.