205,
Aristoinenes
was the only was stupid enough, in the face of this fact, to
one among his friends who ventured to go and try assert that the Aetolians and Achaeans were at
to pacify the rebellious Macedonians.
one among his friends who ventured to go and try assert that the Aetolians and Achaeans were at
to pacify the rebellious Macedonians.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
7.
$ 11.
) Yet he could not bear to relin-
him with superior numbers, and carrying him with quish the thought of war with Sparta, and he re-
fifty of his comrades to Sparta, cast them into the fused therefore to take the lead of the band which,
pit (keáðas) where condemned criminals were under his sons, went and settled at Rhegium. lle
thrown. The rest perished; not so Aristomenes, obtained, however, no opportunity for vengeance ;
the favourite of the gods ; for legends told how an it was not in his life that retribution was to come ;
eagle bore him up on its wings as he fell, and a but while he was consulting the Delphic oracle,
fox guided him on the third day from the cavern. Damagetus, king of lalysus in Rhodes, being there
The enemy could not beliere that he had returned at the same time, was enjoined by the god “ to
to Eira, till the destruction of an army of Corin- marry the daughter of the best of the Greeks. "
thians, who were coming to the Spartans' aid, Such a command, he thought, could have but one
convinced them that Aristomenes was indeed once interpretation ; so he took to wife the daughter of
more amongst them. And now it was that he Aristomenes, who accompanied him to Rhodes,
offered for a second time to Zeus of Ithome the and there ended his days in peace. The Rhodians
sacrifice for the slaughter of a hundred enemies raised to him a splendid monument, and honoured
(ékatoupóvia, comp. Flut. Rom. c. 25). The him as a hero, and from him were descended the
Hyacinthian festival coming on at Sparta, a truce illustrious family of the Diagoridae. (Paus. iv. 24 ;
Pind. 01. vii. ; Müll. Dor. i. 7. $11. ) His bones
This date is from Paus. iv. 15; but see Jus- were said to have been brought back to Messenin
tin. iii. 5; Müll. Dor. i. 7, 10, Append. ix. , Hist. (Paus. iv. 32); his name still lived in the hearts
of Gr. Li'. c. 10. § 5; Clint. Fast. i. p. 250. of his worshipping countrymen ; and later legends
a
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309
ARISTON.
3
tid, when Messenia had once more regained her | his administration no less than previously by his
place among the nations (13. C. 370), how at Leuc- faithfulnces to Agathocles. Scopas and Dicrear-
ira the apparition of Aristomenes had been scen, chus, two powerful men, who ventured to oppose
aiding the Theban host and scattering the bands of his government, were put to death by his com-
Sparta. (Paus. iv. 32. )
(E. E. ) mand. Towards the young king, Aristomenes
ARISTOʻMENES ('Αριστομένης). 1. A was a frank, open, and sincere councillor; but as
comic poet of Athens. He belonged to the ancient the king grew up to manhood, he became less and
Attic comedy, or more correctly to the second class less able to bear the sincerity of Aristomenes,
of the poets constituting the old Attic comedy. who was at last condemned to death, in B. c. 192.
For the ancients seem to distinguish the comic poets (Polyb. xv. 31, xviii. 36, &c. ; Diod. Excerpt.
who flourished before the Peloponnesian war from lib. xxix. , de Virt. et Vit. p. 573; Plut. de Discern.
those who lived during that war, and Aristomenes Adulat. 32. ).
[L. S. )
belonged to the latter. (Suidas, s. r. 'Aplota ARISTOʻMENES, a painter, born at Thasos,
névns ; Eudocinp. 65; Argum. ad Aristoph. is mentioned by Vitruvius (iii. Proocm. $ 2), but
Equit. ) lle was sometimes ridiculed by the sur- did not attain to any distinction. (C. P. M. ]
name ó Guporoos, which may have been derived from ARISTON ('Apiotwv), king of Sparta, 14th of
the circumstance that either he himself or his father, the Eurypontids, son of Agesicles, contemporary of
at one time, was an artizan, perliaps a carpenter. Anaxandrides, ascended the Spartan throne before
As early as the year B. C. 425, he brought out a B. c. 560, and died somewhat before (Paus. iii. 7), or
piece called útocópol, on the same occasion that at any rate not long after, 510. He thus reigned
the Equites of Aristophanes and the Satyri of about 50 years, and was of high reputation, of
Cratinus were performed ; and if it is true that which the public prayer for a son for him, when
another piece entitled Admetus was performed at the house of Procles had other representatives, is a
the same time with the Plutus of Aristophanes, in testimony. Demaratus, hence named, was borne
B. C. 389, the dramatic career of Aristomenes was hin, after two barren marriages, by a third wife,
very long. (Argum. ad Aristoph. Plut. ) But we whom he obtained, it is said, by a fraud from her
know of only a few comedies of Aristomenes; husband, his friend, Agetus. (Herod. i. 65, vi. 61–
Meincke conjectures that the Admetus was brought 66 ; Paus. iii. 7. 87; Plut. Apophth. Lac. ) [A. H. C. ]
out together with the first edition of Aristophanes' ARISTON ('Apiotwv), son of Pyrrhichus, a Co-
Plutus, an hypothesis based upon very weak rinthian, one of those apparently who made their
grounds. Of the two plays mentioned no frag- way into Syracuse in the second year of the Sici-
ments are extant; besides these we know the lian expedition, 414 B. C. , is named once by Thu-
titles and possess a few fragments of three others, cydides, in his account of the sea-fight preceding
viz. 1. Bondoi, which is sometimes attributed to the arrival of the second armament (413 B. C. ), and
Aristophanes, the names of Aristomenes and Aristo styled the most skilful steersman on the side of the
phanes being often confounded in the MSS. 2. Syracusans. He suggested to them the stratagem
Tóntes, and 3. Alóvuoos donnths. There are also of retiring early, giving the men their meal on the
three fragments of which it is uncertain whether shore, and then renewing the combat unexpectedly,
they belong to any of the plays here mentioned, which in that battle gave them their first naval
or to others, the titles of which are unknown. / victory. (vii. 39; comp. Polyaen. v. 13. ) Plu-
(Athen. i. p. 11; Pollux, vii. 167; Harpocrat. s. tarch (Nicias, 20, 25) and Diodorus (xiii. 10) as-
v. Metolkiov. Comp. Meineke, Quaest. Scen. Spec. cribe to him further the invention or introduction at
ü. p. 48, &c. , Hist. Crit. Com. Gr. p. 210, &c. ) Syracuse of the important alterations in the build
2. An actor of the old Attic comedy, who lived of their galleys' bows, mentioned by Thucydides
in the reign and was a freed-man of the emperor (vii. 34), and said by him to have been previously
Hadrian, who used to call him 'ATTIKOTE951€. " He used by the Corinthians in the action off Erineus.
was a native of Athens, and is also mentioned as Plutarch adds, that he fell when the victory was just
the author of a work após tas iepoupyias, the won, in the last and decisive sea-fight. (A. H. C. ]
third book of which is quoted by Athenaeus. (ii. ARISTON ('Aplotwv), historical. 1. Was
p. 115. ) He is perhaps the same as the one men- sent out by one of the Ptolemies of Egypt to ex-
tioned by the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius. plore the western coast of Arabia, which derived
(i. 164. )
its name of Poseideion from an altar which Ariston
3. A Greek writer on agriculture, who is men- had erecied there to Poseidon. (Diod. iii. 41. )
tioned by Varro (de Re Rust. i. l; Columella, i. 2. A strategus of the Aetolians in B. c. 221, who,
1) among those whose native place was unknown. labouring under some bodily defect, left the com-
4. An Acarnanian, a friend and flatterer of the mand of the troops to Scopas and Dorimachus,
contemptible Agathocles, who for a time had the while he himself remained at home. Notwith-
government of Egype in the name of the young standing the declarations of the Achaeans to regard
king Ptolemy V. (Euergetes. ) During the admi- every one as an enemy who should trespass upon
nistration of Agathocles Aristomenes was all-pow- the ierritories of Messenia or Achaia, the Aetolian
erful, and when the insurrection against Agathocles commanders invaded Peloponnesus, and Ariston
broke out in B. C.
205, Aristoinenes was the only was stupid enough, in the face of this fact, to
one among his friends who ventured to go and try assert that the Aetolians and Achaeans were at
to pacify the rebellious Macedonians. But this peace with each other. (Polyb. iv. 5, 9, 17. )
attempt was useless, and Aristomenes himself nar- 3. The leader of an insurrection at Cyrene in
rowly escaped being murdered by the insurgents. B. C. 403, who obtained possession of the town and
After Agathocles was put to death, Tlepolemus, put to death or expelled all the nobles. The latter
who had headed the insurrection, was appointed howerer afterwards became reconciled to the
regent. But about B. c. 202, Aristomenes popular party, and the powers of the government
contrived to get the regency and distinguish were divided between the two parties. (Diod. xiv.
ed himself now by the energy and wisdom of 3+; comp. Paus. iv. 26. & 2. )
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ARISTON.
ARISTON.
ܕ
4. Of Megalopolis, who, at the outbreak of the letters, to the Peripatetic Ariston (of Ceos). Ilow
war of the Komans against Perseus in B. c. 170, far this opinion is correct, we cannot, of course,
advised the Achaeans to join the Romans, and not say; at any rate, however, one of those works,
to remain neutral between the two belligerent par- | 'Epwtinal diatpibal, is repeatedly ascribed to the
ties. In the year following, he was one of the Cean by Athenaeus (x. p. 419, xiii. p. 563, xv.
Achaean ambassadors, who were sent to bring p. 674), who calls it 'Epwtirá ouvia. One work
about a peace between Antiochus III. and Ptolemy of the Cean not mentioned by Diogenes, tvas en-
Philopator. (Polyb. xxviii. 6, xxix. 10. )
titled Aúkw (Plut. dc Aud. poet. 1), in gratitude
5. A Rhodian, who was sent, in the spring of to his master. There are also two epigrams in the
B. C. 170, with several others as ambassador to Greek Anthology (vi. 303, and vii. 457), which
the Roman consul, Q. Marcius Philippus, in Mace are commonly attributed to Ariston of Ceos,
donia to renew the friendship with the Romans, though there is no evidence for it. (Comparc J.
and clear his countrymen from the charges which G. Hubmann, Ariston von Keos, der Peripatetiker,
had been brought against them by some persons. in Jahn's Jahrl. für Philol. 3d supplementary vol.
(Polyb. xxviii. 14. )
Leipz. 1835; Fabricius, Bill. Gr. ill. p. 467, &c. ;
6. Of Tyre, who appears to have been a friend Jacobs, ad Anthol. xiii. p. 861. )
of Hannibal. When the latter was staying at the 4. Of Alexandria, likewise a Peripatetic philoso-
court of Antiochus and meditated a fresh war pher, was a contemporary of Strabo, and wrote a
against the Romans, he despatched Ariston to Car- work on the Nile. (Diog. Laërt. vii. 164; Strab.
thage to rouse his friends there. Hannibal, how- xvii. p. 790. ) Eudorus, a contemporary of his,
erer, lest the messenger should be intercepted, wrote a book on the same subject, and the two
gave him nothing in writing. On Ariston's arrival works were so much alike, that the authors charged
at Carthage, the enemies of Hannibal soon conjec- each other with plagiarism. Who was right is not
tured the object of his presence from his frequent said, though Strabo seems to be inclined to think
interviews with the men of the other party. The that Eudorus was the guilty party. (Hubmann,
suspicions were at last loudly expressed, and Aris l. c. p. 104. )
ton was summoned to explain the objects of his 5. Of Pella in Palestine, lived in the time of
visit. The explanations given were not very sa- the emperor Hadrian or shortly after, as is inferred
tisfactory, and the trial was deferred till the next from his writing a work on the insurrection of the
day. But in the night Ariston embarked and fled, Jews, which broke out in the reign of this em-
leaving behind a letter which he put up in a pub peror. (Euseb. H. E. iv. 6; Niceph. Callist. Hist.
lic place, and in which he declared that the com- Eccl. iii. 24. ) He also wrote a work entitled
munications he had brought were not for any pri- dianetis Marlokou kal ’ldoovos, that is, a dialogue
vate individual, but for the senate. Respecting between Papiscus, a Jew, and Jason, a Jewish
the consequences of this stratagem, see Liv. xxxiv. Christian, in which the former became convinced
61, 62. Compare Appian, Syr. 8 ; Justin, xxxi. of the truth of the Christian religion. (Origen. c.
4.
[L. S. ] Cels. iv. p. 199; Hieronym. Epist. ad Galut. iii.
ARISTON ('Aplotwr), literary. 1. A son of 13. ) It was translated at an early time into Latin
Sophocles by Theoris. (Suidas, s. v. ʼlopav. ) He by one Celsus, but, with the exception of a few
had a son of the name of Sophocles, who is said to fragments, it is now lost. The introduction writ-
have brought out, in B. C. 401, the Oedipus in ten to it by the translator is still extant, and is
Colonus of his grandfather Sophocles. (Argum. ad printed in the Oxford edition of the “ Opuscula"
Sirph. Oed. Col. p. 12, ed. Wunder. ) Whether he of Cyprian (p. 30) and elsewhere. (Hubmann,
is the same as the Ariston who is called a writer 1. c. p. 105. )
of tragedies (Diog. Laërt. vii. 164), and one of 6. Of Alaea ('Alaieús), a Greek rhetorician who
whose tragedies was directed against Mnesthenus, wrote, according to Diogenes Laërtius (vii. 164)
cannot be said with any certainty, though Fabri- scientific treatises on rhetoric. Another rhetoricien
cius (Bill. Gr. ii. p. 287) takes it for granted. of the same name, a native of Gerash, is mentioned
2. A friend of Aristotle, the philosopher, to by Stephanus of Byzantium. (s. v. répaoa. )
whom he is said to have addressed some letters. The name of Ariston occurs very frequently in
(Diog. Laërt. v. 27. )
ancient writers, and it has been calculated that about
3. A Peripatetic philosopher and a native of the thirty persons of this name may be distinguished ;
island of Ceos, where his birthplace was the town but of most of them we know nothing but the
of Julis, whence he is sometimes called Keios and
They have often been confounded with
sometimes 'lovaints. He was a pupil of Lycon one another both by ancient and nuodern writers,
(Diog. Laërt. v. 70, 74), who was the successor of particularly Ariston of Chios and Ariston of Ceos.
Straton as the head of the Peripatetic school, about (Sintenis, ad Plut. Themist. 3, and especially the
B. C. 270. After the death of Lycon, about B. c. treatise of Hubmann referred to above. ) (L. S. ]
230, Ariston succeeded him in the management of ARISTON ('Apiotwv), son of Miltiades, born
the school. Ariston, who was, according to Cicero in the island of Chios, a Stoic and disciple of Zeno,
(de Fin. v. 5), a man of taste and elegance, was fourished about B. C. 260, and was therefore con-
yet deficient in gravity and energy, which pre temporary with Epicurus, Aratus, Antigonus Go-
rented his writings acquiring that popularity which natas, and with the first Punic war. Though be
they otherwise deserved, and may have beer one professed himself a Stoic, yet he differed from Zeno
of the causes of their neglect and loss to us. In
in several points; and indeed Diogenes Laërtius (vii.
his philosophical views, if we may judge from the 160, &c. ) tells us, that he quitted the school of Zeno
scanty fragments still extant, he seems to have for that of Polemo the Platonist. He is said to have
followed his master pretty closely. Diogenes displeased the former by his loquacity,—a quality
Laertius (vii. 163), after enumerating the works which others prized so highly, that he acquired the
of Ariston of Chios, says, that Panaetius and surname of Siren, as a master of persuasive elo-
Sosicrates attributed all these works, cxcept the quence. He was also called Phalantus, from his
name.
## p.
him with superior numbers, and carrying him with quish the thought of war with Sparta, and he re-
fifty of his comrades to Sparta, cast them into the fused therefore to take the lead of the band which,
pit (keáðas) where condemned criminals were under his sons, went and settled at Rhegium. lle
thrown. The rest perished; not so Aristomenes, obtained, however, no opportunity for vengeance ;
the favourite of the gods ; for legends told how an it was not in his life that retribution was to come ;
eagle bore him up on its wings as he fell, and a but while he was consulting the Delphic oracle,
fox guided him on the third day from the cavern. Damagetus, king of lalysus in Rhodes, being there
The enemy could not beliere that he had returned at the same time, was enjoined by the god “ to
to Eira, till the destruction of an army of Corin- marry the daughter of the best of the Greeks. "
thians, who were coming to the Spartans' aid, Such a command, he thought, could have but one
convinced them that Aristomenes was indeed once interpretation ; so he took to wife the daughter of
more amongst them. And now it was that he Aristomenes, who accompanied him to Rhodes,
offered for a second time to Zeus of Ithome the and there ended his days in peace. The Rhodians
sacrifice for the slaughter of a hundred enemies raised to him a splendid monument, and honoured
(ékatoupóvia, comp. Flut. Rom. c. 25). The him as a hero, and from him were descended the
Hyacinthian festival coming on at Sparta, a truce illustrious family of the Diagoridae. (Paus. iv. 24 ;
Pind. 01. vii. ; Müll. Dor. i. 7. $11. ) His bones
This date is from Paus. iv. 15; but see Jus- were said to have been brought back to Messenin
tin. iii. 5; Müll. Dor. i. 7, 10, Append. ix. , Hist. (Paus. iv. 32); his name still lived in the hearts
of Gr. Li'. c. 10. § 5; Clint. Fast. i. p. 250. of his worshipping countrymen ; and later legends
a
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tid, when Messenia had once more regained her | his administration no less than previously by his
place among the nations (13. C. 370), how at Leuc- faithfulnces to Agathocles. Scopas and Dicrear-
ira the apparition of Aristomenes had been scen, chus, two powerful men, who ventured to oppose
aiding the Theban host and scattering the bands of his government, were put to death by his com-
Sparta. (Paus. iv. 32. )
(E. E. ) mand. Towards the young king, Aristomenes
ARISTOʻMENES ('Αριστομένης). 1. A was a frank, open, and sincere councillor; but as
comic poet of Athens. He belonged to the ancient the king grew up to manhood, he became less and
Attic comedy, or more correctly to the second class less able to bear the sincerity of Aristomenes,
of the poets constituting the old Attic comedy. who was at last condemned to death, in B. c. 192.
For the ancients seem to distinguish the comic poets (Polyb. xv. 31, xviii. 36, &c. ; Diod. Excerpt.
who flourished before the Peloponnesian war from lib. xxix. , de Virt. et Vit. p. 573; Plut. de Discern.
those who lived during that war, and Aristomenes Adulat. 32. ).
[L. S. )
belonged to the latter. (Suidas, s. r. 'Aplota ARISTOʻMENES, a painter, born at Thasos,
névns ; Eudocinp. 65; Argum. ad Aristoph. is mentioned by Vitruvius (iii. Proocm. $ 2), but
Equit. ) lle was sometimes ridiculed by the sur- did not attain to any distinction. (C. P. M. ]
name ó Guporoos, which may have been derived from ARISTON ('Apiotwv), king of Sparta, 14th of
the circumstance that either he himself or his father, the Eurypontids, son of Agesicles, contemporary of
at one time, was an artizan, perliaps a carpenter. Anaxandrides, ascended the Spartan throne before
As early as the year B. C. 425, he brought out a B. c. 560, and died somewhat before (Paus. iii. 7), or
piece called útocópol, on the same occasion that at any rate not long after, 510. He thus reigned
the Equites of Aristophanes and the Satyri of about 50 years, and was of high reputation, of
Cratinus were performed ; and if it is true that which the public prayer for a son for him, when
another piece entitled Admetus was performed at the house of Procles had other representatives, is a
the same time with the Plutus of Aristophanes, in testimony. Demaratus, hence named, was borne
B. C. 389, the dramatic career of Aristomenes was hin, after two barren marriages, by a third wife,
very long. (Argum. ad Aristoph. Plut. ) But we whom he obtained, it is said, by a fraud from her
know of only a few comedies of Aristomenes; husband, his friend, Agetus. (Herod. i. 65, vi. 61–
Meincke conjectures that the Admetus was brought 66 ; Paus. iii. 7. 87; Plut. Apophth. Lac. ) [A. H. C. ]
out together with the first edition of Aristophanes' ARISTON ('Apiotwv), son of Pyrrhichus, a Co-
Plutus, an hypothesis based upon very weak rinthian, one of those apparently who made their
grounds. Of the two plays mentioned no frag- way into Syracuse in the second year of the Sici-
ments are extant; besides these we know the lian expedition, 414 B. C. , is named once by Thu-
titles and possess a few fragments of three others, cydides, in his account of the sea-fight preceding
viz. 1. Bondoi, which is sometimes attributed to the arrival of the second armament (413 B. C. ), and
Aristophanes, the names of Aristomenes and Aristo styled the most skilful steersman on the side of the
phanes being often confounded in the MSS. 2. Syracusans. He suggested to them the stratagem
Tóntes, and 3. Alóvuoos donnths. There are also of retiring early, giving the men their meal on the
three fragments of which it is uncertain whether shore, and then renewing the combat unexpectedly,
they belong to any of the plays here mentioned, which in that battle gave them their first naval
or to others, the titles of which are unknown. / victory. (vii. 39; comp. Polyaen. v. 13. ) Plu-
(Athen. i. p. 11; Pollux, vii. 167; Harpocrat. s. tarch (Nicias, 20, 25) and Diodorus (xiii. 10) as-
v. Metolkiov. Comp. Meineke, Quaest. Scen. Spec. cribe to him further the invention or introduction at
ü. p. 48, &c. , Hist. Crit. Com. Gr. p. 210, &c. ) Syracuse of the important alterations in the build
2. An actor of the old Attic comedy, who lived of their galleys' bows, mentioned by Thucydides
in the reign and was a freed-man of the emperor (vii. 34), and said by him to have been previously
Hadrian, who used to call him 'ATTIKOTE951€. " He used by the Corinthians in the action off Erineus.
was a native of Athens, and is also mentioned as Plutarch adds, that he fell when the victory was just
the author of a work após tas iepoupyias, the won, in the last and decisive sea-fight. (A. H. C. ]
third book of which is quoted by Athenaeus. (ii. ARISTON ('Aplotwv), historical. 1. Was
p. 115. ) He is perhaps the same as the one men- sent out by one of the Ptolemies of Egypt to ex-
tioned by the Scholiast on Apollonius Rhodius. plore the western coast of Arabia, which derived
(i. 164. )
its name of Poseideion from an altar which Ariston
3. A Greek writer on agriculture, who is men- had erecied there to Poseidon. (Diod. iii. 41. )
tioned by Varro (de Re Rust. i. l; Columella, i. 2. A strategus of the Aetolians in B. c. 221, who,
1) among those whose native place was unknown. labouring under some bodily defect, left the com-
4. An Acarnanian, a friend and flatterer of the mand of the troops to Scopas and Dorimachus,
contemptible Agathocles, who for a time had the while he himself remained at home. Notwith-
government of Egype in the name of the young standing the declarations of the Achaeans to regard
king Ptolemy V. (Euergetes. ) During the admi- every one as an enemy who should trespass upon
nistration of Agathocles Aristomenes was all-pow- the ierritories of Messenia or Achaia, the Aetolian
erful, and when the insurrection against Agathocles commanders invaded Peloponnesus, and Ariston
broke out in B. C.
205, Aristoinenes was the only was stupid enough, in the face of this fact, to
one among his friends who ventured to go and try assert that the Aetolians and Achaeans were at
to pacify the rebellious Macedonians. But this peace with each other. (Polyb. iv. 5, 9, 17. )
attempt was useless, and Aristomenes himself nar- 3. The leader of an insurrection at Cyrene in
rowly escaped being murdered by the insurgents. B. C. 403, who obtained possession of the town and
After Agathocles was put to death, Tlepolemus, put to death or expelled all the nobles. The latter
who had headed the insurrection, was appointed howerer afterwards became reconciled to the
regent. But about B. c. 202, Aristomenes popular party, and the powers of the government
contrived to get the regency and distinguish were divided between the two parties. (Diod. xiv.
ed himself now by the energy and wisdom of 3+; comp. Paus. iv. 26. & 2. )
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ARISTON.
ARISTON.
ܕ
4. Of Megalopolis, who, at the outbreak of the letters, to the Peripatetic Ariston (of Ceos). Ilow
war of the Komans against Perseus in B. c. 170, far this opinion is correct, we cannot, of course,
advised the Achaeans to join the Romans, and not say; at any rate, however, one of those works,
to remain neutral between the two belligerent par- | 'Epwtinal diatpibal, is repeatedly ascribed to the
ties. In the year following, he was one of the Cean by Athenaeus (x. p. 419, xiii. p. 563, xv.
Achaean ambassadors, who were sent to bring p. 674), who calls it 'Epwtirá ouvia. One work
about a peace between Antiochus III. and Ptolemy of the Cean not mentioned by Diogenes, tvas en-
Philopator. (Polyb. xxviii. 6, xxix. 10. )
titled Aúkw (Plut. dc Aud. poet. 1), in gratitude
5. A Rhodian, who was sent, in the spring of to his master. There are also two epigrams in the
B. C. 170, with several others as ambassador to Greek Anthology (vi. 303, and vii. 457), which
the Roman consul, Q. Marcius Philippus, in Mace are commonly attributed to Ariston of Ceos,
donia to renew the friendship with the Romans, though there is no evidence for it. (Comparc J.
and clear his countrymen from the charges which G. Hubmann, Ariston von Keos, der Peripatetiker,
had been brought against them by some persons. in Jahn's Jahrl. für Philol. 3d supplementary vol.
(Polyb. xxviii. 14. )
Leipz. 1835; Fabricius, Bill. Gr. ill. p. 467, &c. ;
6. Of Tyre, who appears to have been a friend Jacobs, ad Anthol. xiii. p. 861. )
of Hannibal. When the latter was staying at the 4. Of Alexandria, likewise a Peripatetic philoso-
court of Antiochus and meditated a fresh war pher, was a contemporary of Strabo, and wrote a
against the Romans, he despatched Ariston to Car- work on the Nile. (Diog. Laërt. vii. 164; Strab.
thage to rouse his friends there. Hannibal, how- xvii. p. 790. ) Eudorus, a contemporary of his,
erer, lest the messenger should be intercepted, wrote a book on the same subject, and the two
gave him nothing in writing. On Ariston's arrival works were so much alike, that the authors charged
at Carthage, the enemies of Hannibal soon conjec- each other with plagiarism. Who was right is not
tured the object of his presence from his frequent said, though Strabo seems to be inclined to think
interviews with the men of the other party. The that Eudorus was the guilty party. (Hubmann,
suspicions were at last loudly expressed, and Aris l. c. p. 104. )
ton was summoned to explain the objects of his 5. Of Pella in Palestine, lived in the time of
visit. The explanations given were not very sa- the emperor Hadrian or shortly after, as is inferred
tisfactory, and the trial was deferred till the next from his writing a work on the insurrection of the
day. But in the night Ariston embarked and fled, Jews, which broke out in the reign of this em-
leaving behind a letter which he put up in a pub peror. (Euseb. H. E. iv. 6; Niceph. Callist. Hist.
lic place, and in which he declared that the com- Eccl. iii. 24. ) He also wrote a work entitled
munications he had brought were not for any pri- dianetis Marlokou kal ’ldoovos, that is, a dialogue
vate individual, but for the senate. Respecting between Papiscus, a Jew, and Jason, a Jewish
the consequences of this stratagem, see Liv. xxxiv. Christian, in which the former became convinced
61, 62. Compare Appian, Syr. 8 ; Justin, xxxi. of the truth of the Christian religion. (Origen. c.
4.
[L. S. ] Cels. iv. p. 199; Hieronym. Epist. ad Galut. iii.
ARISTON ('Aplotwr), literary. 1. A son of 13. ) It was translated at an early time into Latin
Sophocles by Theoris. (Suidas, s. v. ʼlopav. ) He by one Celsus, but, with the exception of a few
had a son of the name of Sophocles, who is said to fragments, it is now lost. The introduction writ-
have brought out, in B. C. 401, the Oedipus in ten to it by the translator is still extant, and is
Colonus of his grandfather Sophocles. (Argum. ad printed in the Oxford edition of the “ Opuscula"
Sirph. Oed. Col. p. 12, ed. Wunder. ) Whether he of Cyprian (p. 30) and elsewhere. (Hubmann,
is the same as the Ariston who is called a writer 1. c. p. 105. )
of tragedies (Diog. Laërt. vii. 164), and one of 6. Of Alaea ('Alaieús), a Greek rhetorician who
whose tragedies was directed against Mnesthenus, wrote, according to Diogenes Laërtius (vii. 164)
cannot be said with any certainty, though Fabri- scientific treatises on rhetoric. Another rhetoricien
cius (Bill. Gr. ii. p. 287) takes it for granted. of the same name, a native of Gerash, is mentioned
2. A friend of Aristotle, the philosopher, to by Stephanus of Byzantium. (s. v. répaoa. )
whom he is said to have addressed some letters. The name of Ariston occurs very frequently in
(Diog. Laërt. v. 27. )
ancient writers, and it has been calculated that about
3. A Peripatetic philosopher and a native of the thirty persons of this name may be distinguished ;
island of Ceos, where his birthplace was the town but of most of them we know nothing but the
of Julis, whence he is sometimes called Keios and
They have often been confounded with
sometimes 'lovaints. He was a pupil of Lycon one another both by ancient and nuodern writers,
(Diog. Laërt. v. 70, 74), who was the successor of particularly Ariston of Chios and Ariston of Ceos.
Straton as the head of the Peripatetic school, about (Sintenis, ad Plut. Themist. 3, and especially the
B. C. 270. After the death of Lycon, about B. c. treatise of Hubmann referred to above. ) (L. S. ]
230, Ariston succeeded him in the management of ARISTON ('Apiotwv), son of Miltiades, born
the school. Ariston, who was, according to Cicero in the island of Chios, a Stoic and disciple of Zeno,
(de Fin. v. 5), a man of taste and elegance, was fourished about B. C. 260, and was therefore con-
yet deficient in gravity and energy, which pre temporary with Epicurus, Aratus, Antigonus Go-
rented his writings acquiring that popularity which natas, and with the first Punic war. Though be
they otherwise deserved, and may have beer one professed himself a Stoic, yet he differed from Zeno
of the causes of their neglect and loss to us. In
in several points; and indeed Diogenes Laërtius (vii.
his philosophical views, if we may judge from the 160, &c. ) tells us, that he quitted the school of Zeno
scanty fragments still extant, he seems to have for that of Polemo the Platonist. He is said to have
followed his master pretty closely. Diogenes displeased the former by his loquacity,—a quality
Laertius (vii. 163), after enumerating the works which others prized so highly, that he acquired the
of Ariston of Chios, says, that Panaetius and surname of Siren, as a master of persuasive elo-
Sosicrates attributed all these works, cxcept the quence. He was also called Phalantus, from his
name.
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