celebrated grammarian, much esteemed by Ptolemy Philometor, who committed to him the education of his son. He applied himself chiefly to criticism, and made a revival of Homer's poems, but in too magisterial a way; for such verities as he did not like he treated as impious. He commented on other poets; Cicero and Horace made use of his name to express a very rigid critic.

Aristides, surnamed the Just, flourished at Athens at the same time with Themistocles, who triumphed over him by his boisterous eloquence, and got him banished, 483 years before Christ; but Aristides being recalled a short time after, would never join with the enemies of Themistocles, to get him banished; for nothing could make him deviate from the strictest rules of moderation and justice. Aristides brought the Greeks to unite against the Persians; distinguished himself at the famous battle of Marathon, and that of Salamis and Platea; and established an annual income of 460 talents for a fund to supply the expenses of war. This great man died so poor, though he had the management of the revenues of Greece, that the state was obliged to pay his funeral expenses, to give fortunes to his daughters in marriage, and a maintenance to his son Lycurgus.

Aristides of Miletus, a famous Greek author, often cited by the ancients.