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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Athenian statesman and general who fought in the Battle of Marathon (490) and in the victory over the Persians at Salamis (480). He was a central figure in the confederation of Greek states known as the Delian League (478).
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Admiration for intelligence and truth easily turns into resentment at the person who has them; Aristides the Just was banished from Athens because people were fed up with hearing him called Aristides the Just.
The New Yorker Adam Gopnik 2008
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But about midnight, a certain horseman stole into the Greek camp, and coming to the watch, desired them to call Aristides, the Athenian, to him.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Metamorphosis.] 151 The office of Asiarch was of this nature, and it is frequently mentioned in Aristides, the
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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But about midnight, a certain horseman stole into the Greek camp, and coming to the watch, desired them to call Aristides, the Athenian, to him.
Aristides Plutarch 1909
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True confession: I am so pretentious that I made up my own name from scratch, inspired by my smarty-pants Classical Greek minor and by my even smartier-pants American Scholar subscription back in the days of Joseph "Aristides" Epstein.
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"Aristides," _nom de plume_ of William P. Van Ness, i.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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"Aristides '" defence of, 123; nominated for gov.,
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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Compared to the sentences of "Aristides," as polished and attractive as they were bitter and ill-tempered, Cheetham's periods seemed coarse and tame.
A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
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The people rushed by in their thousands to visit Tom Thumb, but few stopped to inspect 'Aristides' or 'Nero.'
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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Haydon had now staked all his hopes upon the exhibition in the spring of 1846 of the first two pictures in his series, 'Aristides' and
Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century George Paston
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