And that which makes me interpret that the pleasure he says he had in his soul concerning his inventions, has some reference to the reputation he hoped for thence after his death, is the manner of his will, in which he gives order that Amynomachus and Timocrates, his heirs, should, every January, defray the expense of the celebration of his birthday as Hermachus should appoint; and also the expense that should be made the twentieth of every moon in entertaining the philosophers, his friends, who should assemble in honour of the memory of him and of Metrodorus.
Eta haren asmamenengatik gogoan sentitzen duela dioen atseginak heriotzaren ondoan erdietsi uste zuen omenari inola ere begiratzen diola itzularazten didana haren testamentuaren manua da: haren bidez nahi baitu Aminomakok eta Timokratesek, bere ondokoek, ordain ditzaten, urtarrileko hilabate guztietan, bere sortegunaren ospamenerako, Hermakok manatu zituzkeen gastuak eta ilargi bakoitzeko hogeigarren egunean, bere eta Metrodororen oroimenaren ohorean batzartu ziratekeen bere ahaide filosofoen ohoratzean egin zatekeen dispendiorako ere.