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to Libya, where Aristaios was born at Cyrene. He was said to be the “most beneficent of deities,” ever going about to avert droughts and famines, protecting flocks and plantations, and teaching agriculture. Aristeas. A Kuprian (from Cyprus), selected by Ptolemy I (Phil a del phos) to command the escort that was sent to Jerusalem (about 285 or 270 B.c.), to bring back to Egypt a copy of the Hebrew Law for translation into Greek, and to be added to the Brukhion library, then being established in Alexandria. Aristeas took presents to the | Jewish high priest Eleazar, and is said to have returned with 72 elders, or 6 from each tribe of Israel. A very full letter to his brother Phil ok rates recounts all the circumstances. [It is still known, but the genuinene is disputed.—Ep.] It was printed in Greek and Latin in 1561 A.c., and reprinted at Oxford in 1691. The narrative coincides, excepting some slight variations, with one attributed to Aristobilus, a Jewish philosopher of the 2nd century B.c, (Smith’s Dict. of Greek and Roman Biography), Aristidés. The author of an Apology for Christianity, which he presented to the Emperor Hadrian in 133 ac, It is now lost, but mentioned by Eusebius (Hist. Eccles., 1V, iii, 143), as “extant and in the hands of many” in the 4th century a.c. Jerome calls Aristides “an A then i an philosopher of great eloquence, and a disciple of Christ.” The Apology, he said, “contained the principles of the faith still known among the learned.” Aristides is called “a man of admirable faith and wisdom.” He called Christ “the only and true god.” In 1672 a French traveller stated that the Apology was still in the monastery of Pentilikos, 6 miles from Athens (Smith’s Diet. Christian Biogr.). Aristippos. The founder of the Kurenaik school of philosophy (400 to 350 nc.) who, though a disciple of Sokrates, differed from him in principles and practice, especially during his hot-headed youth. He was condemned by Plato and Xenophon for regarding enjoyment as the greatest good. He however taught and acted differently in mature manhood and old age. About 370 B.c. he declared his Golden Rule: “Cherish reciprocal benevolence, which will make you as anxious for another's welfare as for your own.” This too was Plato’s prayer (in 420 B.c.): “May I do to others as I would have them do to me”; and Sextus also wrote (in 400 B.C.): “What you wish your neighbours to be to you, be such also to them.” 164