Aristides

(ar-is-ti'dees,) an A then i an patriot, whose inflexible integrity obtained for him the name of ' The Just,' was a great admirer of the laws of Lycurgus, and opposed to the democratic party headed by Them is toc les. He was second in command to Miltiades at the battle of Marathon, and was made archon in the year following, but his rigid integrity in this office led to s0 strong an opposition by the popular party that he was ostracized. Recalled from banishment to oppose the Persians under Xerxes, he, both at Salamis and Platæa, exerted himself to the utmost to serve and save his country. Though he had borne all the highest offices of the state, he D. poor, 467 B. c. Aristip'pus, founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophers, flourished in the 5th century B.c. [s. 46]