Perpema, who succeeded
pils, that in his old age he abandoned himself to Crassus, acted with more energy, and in the very
pleasure.
pils, that in his old age he abandoned himself to Crassus, acted with more energy, and in the very
pleasure.
William Smith - 1844 - Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities - a
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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ARISTON
311
ARISTONICUS.
!
baldness. He rejected all branches of philosophy and Sosicrates (1. c. 200-128) to another Ariston,
but ethics, considering physiology as beyond man's a Peripatetic of Ceos, with whom he is often con-
powers, and logic as unsuited to them. Even with founded. Nevertheless, we find in Stobaeus (Serm.
regard to ethics, Seneca (Ep. 89) complains, that iv. 110, &c. ) fragments of a work of his called
he deprived them of all their practical side, a sub- óuoiduata.
(G. E. L. C. )
ject which he said belonged to the schoolmaster ARISTON ('Aplotwv), a physician, of whose
rather than to the philosopher. The sole object, life no particulars are known, but who probably
therefore, of ethics was to shew wherein the su- lived in the fifth century B. C. , as Galen mentions
preme good consists, and this he made to be him (Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Rat. Vict. in Morl.
dolapopia, i. c. entire indifference to everything Acut. ” i. 17, vol. xv. p. 455) with three other phy-
except virtue and vice. (Cic. Acad. ii. 42. ) All sicians, who all (he says) lived in old times, some
external things therefore were in his view perfectly as contemporaries of Hippocrates, and the others
indifferent; so that he entirely rejected Zeno's dis before him. Galen also says that he was by some
tinction between the good and the preferable (rà persons supposed to be the author of the work in
#ponyuéva), i. e. wbatever excites desire in the in- the Hippocratic Collection entitled nepl Alainns
dividual mind of any rational being, without being gleivñs, de Salubri Victus Rationc. (l. c. ; De Aliment.
in itself desirable or good, and of which the pure Facult. i. 1, vol. vi. p. 473; Comment. in Hippocr.
Stoical doctrine permitted an account to be taken “ Aphor. ” vi. 1, vol. xviii
. pt. i. p. 9. ) A medical pre-
in the conduct of human life. (Cic. fin. iv. 25. ) paration by a person of the same name is quoted by
But this notion of aponyueva was so utterly re- Celsus (De Medic. v. 18. p. 88) and Galen. (De Com-
jected by Ariston, that he held it to be quite in pos. Medicam. sec. Locos, ix. 4. vol. xiii. p. 281. ) The
different whether we are in perfect health, or Ariston of Chios, mentioned by Galen (De Hippocr.
afflicted by the severest sickness (Cic. Fin. ii. 13); et Plat. Decret. v. 5, vii. 1, 2, vol. v. pp. 468, 589,
whereas of virtue he declared his wish that even 596), is a different person. (W. A. G. )
beasts could understand words which would excite ARISTON. 1. A celebrated silver-chaser and
them to it. (Plut. Maxime c. Princip. Philosopho sculptor in bronze, born at Mytilene. His time is un-
esse diss. § 1. ) It is, however, obvious that those known. (Plin. xxxiii. 55, xxxiv. 19. & 25. )
who adopt this theory of the absolute indifference 2. A painter, the son and pupil of Aristei-
of everything but virtue and vice, in fact take des of Thebes (ARISTEIDES), painted a satyr
away all materials for virtue to act upon, and con- holding a goblet and crowned with a garland. An-
fine it in a state of mere abstraction. This part of torides and Euphranor were his disciples. (Plin.
Ariston's system is purely cynical, and perhaps he xxxv. 36. $ 23. )
[P. S. ]
wished to shew his admiration for that philosophy, ARISTON (Aplotwr) and TELESTAS (TE-
by opening his school at Athens in the Cynosarges, acotas), brothers, were the sculptors of a colossal
where Antisthenes had taught. (ANTISTHENES. ] statue of Zeus which the Cleitorians dedicated at
He also differed with Zeno as to the plurality of Olympia from the spoils of many captured cities.
virtues, allowing of one only, which he called the The statue with its pedestal was ajout eighteen
health of the soul (úyelav wvóvače, Plut. Virt. Mor. Greek feet high. It bore an inscription, which is
2). This appears to follow from the cynical parts given by Pausanias, but in a mutilated state.
of his system, for by taking away all the objects (Paus. v. 23. $ 6. )
[P. S. )
of virtue, he of course deprives it of variety; and ARISTONICUS ('Aplotovikos). 1. A tyrant
so he based all morality on a well-ordered mind. of Methymnae in Lesbos. In B. c. 332, when the
Connected with this is bis paradox, Sapiens non nararchs of Alexander the Great had already taken
opinatur—the philosopher is free from all opinions possession of the harbour of Chios, Aristonicus
(since they would be liable to disturb his unruffled arrived during the night with some privateer ships,
equanimity); and this doctrine seems to disclose a and entered it under the belief that it was still in
latent tendency to scepticism, which Cicero appears the hands of the Persians. He was taken pri-
to bave suspected, by often coupling him with soner and delivered up to the Methymnaeans, who
Pyrrho. In conformity with this view, he des- put him to death in a cruel manner. (Arrian, Anab.
pised Zeno's physical speculations, and doubted iï. 2; Curtius, iv. 4. )
whether God is or is not a living Being. (Cic. Nat. 2. A natural son of Eumenes II. of Pergamus,
Deor. i. 14. ) But this apparently atheistic dogma who was succeeded by Attalus III. When the
perhaps only referred to the Stoical conception of latter died in B. c. 133, and made over his kingdom
God, as of a subtle fire dwelling in the sky and to the Romans, Aristonicus claimed his father's
diffusing itself through the universe. (ZENO. ] He kingdom as his lawful inheritance. The towns,
may have meant merely to demonstrate his posi- for fear of the Romans, refused to recognise him,
tion, that physiology is above the human intellect, but he compelled them by force of arms; and at
by shewing the impossibility of certainly attribut- last there seemed no doubt of his ultimate success.
ing to this pantheistic essence, form, senses, or life. In B. c. 131, the consul P. Licinius Crassus, who
(Brucker, Hist. Crit. Phil. ii. 2,9; Ritter, Geschichte received Asia as his province, marched against
der Phil. xi. 5, 1. )
him; but he was more intent upon making booty
Ariston is the founder of a small school, opposed than on combating his enemy, and in an ill-organ-
to that of Herillus, and of which Diogenes Laërtius ized battle which was foughi about the end of the
mentions Dipbilus and Miltiades as members. We year, his army was defeated, and he himself made
learn from Athenaeus (vii. p. 281), on the authority prisoner by Aristonicus. In the year following,
of Eratosthenes and A pollophanes, two of his puis B. c. 130, the consul M.
Perpema, who succeeded
pils, that in his old age he abandoned himself to Crassus, acted with more energy, and in the very
pleasure. He is suid to have died of a coup de first engagement conquered Aristonicus and took
soleil. Diogenes (l. c. ) gives a list of his works, him prisoner. After the death of Perperna, M. '
but says, that all of them, except the Letters to Aquillius completed the conquest of the kingdom
Cleanthes, were attributed by Panaetius (1. c. 143) | of Pergamus, B. c. 129. Aristonicus was carried
## p. 312 (#332) ############################################
312
ARISTONOUS.
ARISTOPHANES.
to Rome to adorn the triumph of Aquillius, and ARISTONYMUS ('ApuotuvuMos ), a comic
was then beheaded. (Justin, xxxvi. 4; Liv. Epit. poet and contemporary of Aristophanes and Amci-
59; Vell. Pat. ii. 4; Flor. ii. 20 ; Oros. v. 10; psias. (Anonym. in Vit. Aristoph. ; Schol. ad Platon.
Sall. Hist. 4 ; Appian, Mithrid. 12, 62, de Bell. Civ. p. 33), Bekker. ) We know the titles of only two
i. 17; Val. Max. iii. 4. & 5; Diod. Fragm. lib. 34, of his comedies, viz. Theseus (Athen. iii. p. 87),
p. 598; Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 33, Philip. xi. 8 ; and "Haios pryw (Athen. vii. pp. 284, 287), of
Ascon. ad Cic. pro Scaur. p. 24, ed. Orelli. ) which only a few fragments are extant. Schweig-
3. A eunuch of Ptolemy Epiphanes, who had häuser and Fabricius place this poet in the reign
been brought up with the king from his early of Ptolemy Philadelphus, an error into which both
youth. Polybius speaks of him in terms of high were led by Suidas (s. r. 'Aplotovuos), who, if
praise, as a man of a generous and warlike dispo the reading is correct, evidently confounds the poet
sition, and skilled in political transactions. In with some grammarian. If there had ever existed
B. C. 185, when the king had to fight against some a grammarian of this name, and if he had written
discontented Egyptians, Aristonicus went to Greece the works attributed to him by Suidas, he would
and engaged a body of mercenaries there. (Polyb. assuredly have been mentioned by other writers
xxiii. 16, 17. )
also. This is not the case; and as we know that
4. Of Alexandria, a contemporary of Strabo Aristophanes of Byzantium was the successor of
(i. p. 38), distinguished himself as a grammarian, Apollonius as chief librarian at Alexandria (which
and is mentioned as the author of several works, Suidas says of Aristonymus), Meineke conjectures
most of which related to the Homeric poems. - with great probability, that the name of Aristo-
1. On the wanderings of Monelaus (tepi tñs | phanes has dropped out in our text of Suidas.
Meveldov a návms; Strab. I. c. ). 2. On the critical (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Gr. p. 196, &c. )
signs by which the Alexandrine critics used to An Athenian, of the name of Aristonymus, who
mark the suspected or interpolated verses in the was a contemporary of Alexander the Great, but
Homeric poems and in Hesiod's Theogony. (Tiepnot a grammarian, is mentioned by Athenacus.
των σημείων των της Ιλιάδος και 'Οδυσσείας, (x. p. 452, xii. p. 538. ) There were also two
Etym. M. s. vv. Núxvos, špoaand onń; Suidas, writers of this name, but neither of them appears
s. v. 'Ap! OTOVLKOS; Eudoc. p. 64 ; Schol. Venet. ad to have been a grammarian. (Plut. de Flum. p.
Hom. Il. ix. 397. ) 3. On irregular grammatical 1165; Stobaeus, passim. )
[L. S. ]
constructions in Homer, consisting of six books ARISTOʻPHILUS ('Apioródios), a druggist,
(do UVTÁKTW dvouátwv Biblia ; Suidas, l. c. ). of Plataea in Boeotia, who lived probably in the
These and some other works are now lost, with fourth century B. C. He is mentioned by Theo-
the exception of a few fragments preserved in the phrastus (Hist. Plant. ix. 18. $ 4) as possessing the
passages above referred to. (Villoison, Proleg. ad knowledge of certain antaphrodisiac medicines,
Hom. p. 18. )
which he made use of either for the punishment
5. Of Tarentum, the author of a mythological or reformation of his slaves. [W. A. G. )
work which is often referred to. (Phot. Cod. 190; ARISTO'PHANES ('Apiotopárns), the only
Serv. ad Aen. iii. 335; Caes. Germ. in Arat. Phaen. writer of the old comedy of whom any entire works
327 ; Hygin. Počt. Astr. ii. 34. ) He is perhaps are left. His later extant plays approximate
the same as the one mentioned by Athenaeus (i rather to the middle comedy, and in the Cocalus,
p. 20), but nothing is known about him. (Roulez, his last production, he so nearly approached the
ud Ptolem. Hephaest. p. 148. )
[L. S. ] new, that Philemon brought it out a second time
ARISTONIDAS, a statuary, one of whose with very little alteration.
productions is mentioned by Pliny (H. N. xxxiv. Aristophanes was the son of Philippus, as is
14. 8. 40) as extant at Thebes in his time. It stated by all the authorities for his life, and proved
was a statue of Athamas, in which bronze and iron by the fact of his son also having that name, although
had been mixed together, that the rust of the latter, a bust exists with the inscription 'Apiotopávns
showing through the brightness of the bronze, Pidimmidov, which is, however, now generally al-
might have the appearance of a blush, and so might lowed to be spurious. He was an Athenian of
indicate the remorse of Athamas. [C. P. M. ) the tribe Pandionis, and the Cydathenaean Demus,
ARISTONIDES, a painter of some distinction, and is said to have been the pupil of Prodicus,
mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. ll. s. 40), was the though this is improbable, since he speaks of bim
father and instructor of Mnasitimus. (C. P. M. ] rather with contempt. (Nub. 360, Ar. 692, Tage-
ARISTONOUS ('Aplotávoos). l. Of Gela in nist. Fragm. xviii. Bekk. ) We are told (Schol. ad
Syracuse, one of the founders of the colony of Ran. 502), that he first engaged in the comic con-
Aggentum, B, C.
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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ARISTON
311
ARISTONICUS.
!
baldness. He rejected all branches of philosophy and Sosicrates (1. c. 200-128) to another Ariston,
but ethics, considering physiology as beyond man's a Peripatetic of Ceos, with whom he is often con-
powers, and logic as unsuited to them. Even with founded. Nevertheless, we find in Stobaeus (Serm.
regard to ethics, Seneca (Ep. 89) complains, that iv. 110, &c. ) fragments of a work of his called
he deprived them of all their practical side, a sub- óuoiduata.
(G. E. L. C. )
ject which he said belonged to the schoolmaster ARISTON ('Aplotwv), a physician, of whose
rather than to the philosopher. The sole object, life no particulars are known, but who probably
therefore, of ethics was to shew wherein the su- lived in the fifth century B. C. , as Galen mentions
preme good consists, and this he made to be him (Comment. in Hippocr. “ De Rat. Vict. in Morl.
dolapopia, i. c. entire indifference to everything Acut. ” i. 17, vol. xv. p. 455) with three other phy-
except virtue and vice. (Cic. Acad. ii. 42. ) All sicians, who all (he says) lived in old times, some
external things therefore were in his view perfectly as contemporaries of Hippocrates, and the others
indifferent; so that he entirely rejected Zeno's dis before him. Galen also says that he was by some
tinction between the good and the preferable (rà persons supposed to be the author of the work in
#ponyuéva), i. e. wbatever excites desire in the in- the Hippocratic Collection entitled nepl Alainns
dividual mind of any rational being, without being gleivñs, de Salubri Victus Rationc. (l. c. ; De Aliment.
in itself desirable or good, and of which the pure Facult. i. 1, vol. vi. p. 473; Comment. in Hippocr.
Stoical doctrine permitted an account to be taken “ Aphor. ” vi. 1, vol. xviii
. pt. i. p. 9. ) A medical pre-
in the conduct of human life. (Cic. fin. iv. 25. ) paration by a person of the same name is quoted by
But this notion of aponyueva was so utterly re- Celsus (De Medic. v. 18. p. 88) and Galen. (De Com-
jected by Ariston, that he held it to be quite in pos. Medicam. sec. Locos, ix. 4. vol. xiii. p. 281. ) The
different whether we are in perfect health, or Ariston of Chios, mentioned by Galen (De Hippocr.
afflicted by the severest sickness (Cic. Fin. ii. 13); et Plat. Decret. v. 5, vii. 1, 2, vol. v. pp. 468, 589,
whereas of virtue he declared his wish that even 596), is a different person. (W. A. G. )
beasts could understand words which would excite ARISTON. 1. A celebrated silver-chaser and
them to it. (Plut. Maxime c. Princip. Philosopho sculptor in bronze, born at Mytilene. His time is un-
esse diss. § 1. ) It is, however, obvious that those known. (Plin. xxxiii. 55, xxxiv. 19. & 25. )
who adopt this theory of the absolute indifference 2. A painter, the son and pupil of Aristei-
of everything but virtue and vice, in fact take des of Thebes (ARISTEIDES), painted a satyr
away all materials for virtue to act upon, and con- holding a goblet and crowned with a garland. An-
fine it in a state of mere abstraction. This part of torides and Euphranor were his disciples. (Plin.
Ariston's system is purely cynical, and perhaps he xxxv. 36. $ 23. )
[P. S. ]
wished to shew his admiration for that philosophy, ARISTON (Aplotwr) and TELESTAS (TE-
by opening his school at Athens in the Cynosarges, acotas), brothers, were the sculptors of a colossal
where Antisthenes had taught. (ANTISTHENES. ] statue of Zeus which the Cleitorians dedicated at
He also differed with Zeno as to the plurality of Olympia from the spoils of many captured cities.
virtues, allowing of one only, which he called the The statue with its pedestal was ajout eighteen
health of the soul (úyelav wvóvače, Plut. Virt. Mor. Greek feet high. It bore an inscription, which is
2). This appears to follow from the cynical parts given by Pausanias, but in a mutilated state.
of his system, for by taking away all the objects (Paus. v. 23. $ 6. )
[P. S. )
of virtue, he of course deprives it of variety; and ARISTONICUS ('Aplotovikos). 1. A tyrant
so he based all morality on a well-ordered mind. of Methymnae in Lesbos. In B. c. 332, when the
Connected with this is bis paradox, Sapiens non nararchs of Alexander the Great had already taken
opinatur—the philosopher is free from all opinions possession of the harbour of Chios, Aristonicus
(since they would be liable to disturb his unruffled arrived during the night with some privateer ships,
equanimity); and this doctrine seems to disclose a and entered it under the belief that it was still in
latent tendency to scepticism, which Cicero appears the hands of the Persians. He was taken pri-
to bave suspected, by often coupling him with soner and delivered up to the Methymnaeans, who
Pyrrho. In conformity with this view, he des- put him to death in a cruel manner. (Arrian, Anab.
pised Zeno's physical speculations, and doubted iï. 2; Curtius, iv. 4. )
whether God is or is not a living Being. (Cic. Nat. 2. A natural son of Eumenes II. of Pergamus,
Deor. i. 14. ) But this apparently atheistic dogma who was succeeded by Attalus III. When the
perhaps only referred to the Stoical conception of latter died in B. c. 133, and made over his kingdom
God, as of a subtle fire dwelling in the sky and to the Romans, Aristonicus claimed his father's
diffusing itself through the universe. (ZENO. ] He kingdom as his lawful inheritance. The towns,
may have meant merely to demonstrate his posi- for fear of the Romans, refused to recognise him,
tion, that physiology is above the human intellect, but he compelled them by force of arms; and at
by shewing the impossibility of certainly attribut- last there seemed no doubt of his ultimate success.
ing to this pantheistic essence, form, senses, or life. In B. c. 131, the consul P. Licinius Crassus, who
(Brucker, Hist. Crit. Phil. ii. 2,9; Ritter, Geschichte received Asia as his province, marched against
der Phil. xi. 5, 1. )
him; but he was more intent upon making booty
Ariston is the founder of a small school, opposed than on combating his enemy, and in an ill-organ-
to that of Herillus, and of which Diogenes Laërtius ized battle which was foughi about the end of the
mentions Dipbilus and Miltiades as members. We year, his army was defeated, and he himself made
learn from Athenaeus (vii. p. 281), on the authority prisoner by Aristonicus. In the year following,
of Eratosthenes and A pollophanes, two of his puis B. c. 130, the consul M.
Perpema, who succeeded
pils, that in his old age he abandoned himself to Crassus, acted with more energy, and in the very
pleasure. He is suid to have died of a coup de first engagement conquered Aristonicus and took
soleil. Diogenes (l. c. ) gives a list of his works, him prisoner. After the death of Perperna, M. '
but says, that all of them, except the Letters to Aquillius completed the conquest of the kingdom
Cleanthes, were attributed by Panaetius (1. c. 143) | of Pergamus, B. c. 129. Aristonicus was carried
## p. 312 (#332) ############################################
312
ARISTONOUS.
ARISTOPHANES.
to Rome to adorn the triumph of Aquillius, and ARISTONYMUS ('ApuotuvuMos ), a comic
was then beheaded. (Justin, xxxvi. 4; Liv. Epit. poet and contemporary of Aristophanes and Amci-
59; Vell. Pat. ii. 4; Flor. ii. 20 ; Oros. v. 10; psias. (Anonym. in Vit. Aristoph. ; Schol. ad Platon.
Sall. Hist. 4 ; Appian, Mithrid. 12, 62, de Bell. Civ. p. 33), Bekker. ) We know the titles of only two
i. 17; Val. Max. iii. 4. & 5; Diod. Fragm. lib. 34, of his comedies, viz. Theseus (Athen. iii. p. 87),
p. 598; Cic. de Leg. Agr. ii. 33, Philip. xi. 8 ; and "Haios pryw (Athen. vii. pp. 284, 287), of
Ascon. ad Cic. pro Scaur. p. 24, ed. Orelli. ) which only a few fragments are extant. Schweig-
3. A eunuch of Ptolemy Epiphanes, who had häuser and Fabricius place this poet in the reign
been brought up with the king from his early of Ptolemy Philadelphus, an error into which both
youth. Polybius speaks of him in terms of high were led by Suidas (s. r. 'Aplotovuos), who, if
praise, as a man of a generous and warlike dispo the reading is correct, evidently confounds the poet
sition, and skilled in political transactions. In with some grammarian. If there had ever existed
B. C. 185, when the king had to fight against some a grammarian of this name, and if he had written
discontented Egyptians, Aristonicus went to Greece the works attributed to him by Suidas, he would
and engaged a body of mercenaries there. (Polyb. assuredly have been mentioned by other writers
xxiii. 16, 17. )
also. This is not the case; and as we know that
4. Of Alexandria, a contemporary of Strabo Aristophanes of Byzantium was the successor of
(i. p. 38), distinguished himself as a grammarian, Apollonius as chief librarian at Alexandria (which
and is mentioned as the author of several works, Suidas says of Aristonymus), Meineke conjectures
most of which related to the Homeric poems. - with great probability, that the name of Aristo-
1. On the wanderings of Monelaus (tepi tñs | phanes has dropped out in our text of Suidas.
Meveldov a návms; Strab. I. c. ). 2. On the critical (Meineke, Hist. Crit. Com. Gr. p. 196, &c. )
signs by which the Alexandrine critics used to An Athenian, of the name of Aristonymus, who
mark the suspected or interpolated verses in the was a contemporary of Alexander the Great, but
Homeric poems and in Hesiod's Theogony. (Tiepnot a grammarian, is mentioned by Athenacus.
των σημείων των της Ιλιάδος και 'Οδυσσείας, (x. p. 452, xii. p. 538. ) There were also two
Etym. M. s. vv. Núxvos, špoaand onń; Suidas, writers of this name, but neither of them appears
s. v. 'Ap! OTOVLKOS; Eudoc. p. 64 ; Schol. Venet. ad to have been a grammarian. (Plut. de Flum. p.
Hom. Il. ix. 397. ) 3. On irregular grammatical 1165; Stobaeus, passim. )
[L. S. ]
constructions in Homer, consisting of six books ARISTOʻPHILUS ('Apioródios), a druggist,
(do UVTÁKTW dvouátwv Biblia ; Suidas, l. c. ). of Plataea in Boeotia, who lived probably in the
These and some other works are now lost, with fourth century B. C. He is mentioned by Theo-
the exception of a few fragments preserved in the phrastus (Hist. Plant. ix. 18. $ 4) as possessing the
passages above referred to. (Villoison, Proleg. ad knowledge of certain antaphrodisiac medicines,
Hom. p. 18. )
which he made use of either for the punishment
5. Of Tarentum, the author of a mythological or reformation of his slaves. [W. A. G. )
work which is often referred to. (Phot. Cod. 190; ARISTO'PHANES ('Apiotopárns), the only
Serv. ad Aen. iii. 335; Caes. Germ. in Arat. Phaen. writer of the old comedy of whom any entire works
327 ; Hygin. Počt. Astr. ii. 34. ) He is perhaps are left. His later extant plays approximate
the same as the one mentioned by Athenaeus (i rather to the middle comedy, and in the Cocalus,
p. 20), but nothing is known about him. (Roulez, his last production, he so nearly approached the
ud Ptolem. Hephaest. p. 148. )
[L. S. ] new, that Philemon brought it out a second time
ARISTONIDAS, a statuary, one of whose with very little alteration.
productions is mentioned by Pliny (H. N. xxxiv. Aristophanes was the son of Philippus, as is
14. 8. 40) as extant at Thebes in his time. It stated by all the authorities for his life, and proved
was a statue of Athamas, in which bronze and iron by the fact of his son also having that name, although
had been mixed together, that the rust of the latter, a bust exists with the inscription 'Apiotopávns
showing through the brightness of the bronze, Pidimmidov, which is, however, now generally al-
might have the appearance of a blush, and so might lowed to be spurious. He was an Athenian of
indicate the remorse of Athamas. [C. P. M. ) the tribe Pandionis, and the Cydathenaean Demus,
ARISTONIDES, a painter of some distinction, and is said to have been the pupil of Prodicus,
mentioned by Pliny (xxxv. ll. s. 40), was the though this is improbable, since he speaks of bim
father and instructor of Mnasitimus. (C. P. M. ] rather with contempt. (Nub. 360, Ar. 692, Tage-
ARISTONOUS ('Aplotávoos). l. Of Gela in nist. Fragm. xviii. Bekk. ) We are told (Schol. ad
Syracuse, one of the founders of the colony of Ran. 502), that he first engaged in the comic con-
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