Ariston

, the son of Agasicles king of Sparta. Being unable to raise children by two wives, he married another famous for her beauty, by whom he had, after seven months, a son Demaratus, whom he had the impudence to call not his own. Hero dot us , bk. 6 , ch. 61 , . ――A general of Ætolia.――A sculptor.――A Corinthian who a isted the Syracusans against the A then i ans.――An officer in Alexander’s army.――A tyrant of Methymna, who, being ignorant that Chios had surrendered to the Maced on i ans, entered into the harbour, and was taken and put to death. Curtius , bk. 4 , ch. 9 .――A philosopher of Chios, pupil to Zeno the stoic, and founder of a sect which continued but a little while. He supported that the nature of the divinity is unintelligible. It is said that he died by the heat of the sun, which fell too powerfully upon his bald head. In his old age he was much given to sensuality. Diogenes Laërtius. ――A lawyer in Trajan’s reign, whose eulogium has been written by Pliny, ltr. 22 , bk. 1 .――A peripatetic philosopher of Alexandria, who wrote concerning the course of the Nile. Strabo. ――A wrestler of Argos, under whom Plato performed some exercises.――A musician of Athens.――A tragic poet.――A peripatetic of Cos.――A native of Pella, in the age of Adrian, who wrote on the rebellion of the Jews.