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ARISTOGITON

Volume 3 · 48 words · 1860 Edition

a famous Athenian, who, with Harmodius, killed Hipparchus, tyrant of Athens, about 513 B.C. The Athenians erected a statue to him. See Harmodius.

ARISTOLOCHIÆ, a natural order of Monochlamydean plants, of which the chief genera are Aristolochia, and Asarum, the medicinal qualities of which are purgative and emetic.