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  • Aristocrates with his own tribe, which, as taxiarch, he commanded, seized Alexicles, an oligarchical general who had been most concerned with the clubs, and shut him up in a house.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • No further measures followed; and so Theramenes and Aristocrates, and the other citizens, whether members of the Four Hundred or not, who were of the same mind, were emboldened to take decided steps.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Aristocrates and Adeimantus, the son of Leucophilides.

    Hellenica 2007

  • In the meantime the Athenians began to discover the proceedings of the Chians, and despatched one of their generals, Aristocrates, to accuse them of treason.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2007

  • Athenian squadron stood out to meet him, with their left wing facing towards the open sea, and drawn up in the following order: — Aristocrates, in command of the left wing, with fifteen ships, led the van; next came Diomedon with fifteen others, and immediately in rear of Aristocrates and Diomedon respectively, as their supports, came Pericles and Erasinides.

    Hellenica 2007

  • This so emboldened Theramenes and Aristocrates and the rest of their partisans in the Four Hundred and out of doors, that they now resolved to act.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • The Corinthians not consenting to this, a delay ensued, during which the Athenians conceived suspicions of what was preparing at Chios, and sent Aristocrates, one of their generals, and charged them with the fact, and, upon the denial of the Chians, ordered them to send with them a contingent of ships, as faithful confederates.

    The History of the Peloponnesian War Thucydides 2005

  • Of his orations addressed to the public assemblies, that against Androtion, and those against Timocrates and Aristocrates, were written for others, before he had come forward himself as a politician.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Aristocrates three hundred and fifty, Spartans to death, razed the walls, took away a good part of their territory and transferred it to the Megalopolitans, forced out of the country and carried into

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Aristocrates, the son of Hipparchus, says that he died in Crete, and that his Cretan friends, in accordance with his own request, when they had burned his body, scattered the ashes into the sea; for fear lest, if his relics should be transported to Lacedaemon, the people might pretend to be released from their oaths, and make innovations in the government.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

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