During his stay in New Orleans he proclaimed martial law, and carried out his measures with unrelenting sternness, banishing from the town a judge who attempted resistance. Of Spain and afterwards for many more the object of his unrelenting hostility, was by birth an Aragonese.
With the unjust execution of Socrates in mind, Aristotle chose to flee Athens, lest the Athenians sin twice against philosophy , as he said, and died a year later in 322 BCE.
Aristotle became Plato's best student and was generally felt to be Plato's successor. He remained at the Academy until Plato's death in 347 BCE, when, bypassed in the election of the Academy's next president, Aristotle left Athens with a few students and friends.