 Damascius, whose Life of Isidore is the source of most details about Ammonius’ life, greatly admired Aedesia for her piety and charity, and while still a young student of rhetoric he gave her eulogy at Horapollo’s school. Although the municipal stipend which had been paid to Hermeias (presumably as a teacher) continued to be given her after Hermeias’ death, from the time Ammonius and his younger brother Heliodorus were small until their maturity, Damascius says that Aedesia’s charitable giving left her sons in debt on her death in old age (ca. 475, since Damascius, still a boy and a student of rhetoric, was honored to give her eulogy, ornamented with heroic hexameters). These financial straits may have something to do with Damascius’ opinion that Ammonius was viciously greedy: with this debt, he would certainly have striven to keep teaching and collecting salary and fees; however, the preserved excerpts of Damascius do not make this connection, perhaps in order to portray Ammonius as simply greedy (see below, on Ammonius’ alleged ‘deal’ with the Christian Bishop of Alexandria). For Damascius the true offspring of this union of this exceptionally moral and holy couple was Aedesia and Hermeias’ eldest child, blessed with divine gifts, who died at age seven and receives a rather hagiographic description. Aedesia accompanied her two surviving sons to Athens, where, at her suggestion, both studied with Proclus.