very eloquent Athenian orator, who became a convert to the Christian religion, and about the year 124 presented to the emperor Adrian an apology for the Christians.

Aristides (Ælius), a celebrated orator, born in Mytilene, about 129 years before the Christian era. The best edition of his works is that of Oxford, printed in Greek and Latin, in two volumes quarto.

painter contemporary with Apelles, flourished at Thebes about the 125th Olympiad. He is said to have been the first who attempted to delineate the passions of the mind in colours. His Bacchus was so excellent a piece, as to become proverbial.