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 Ariste’as.Aristippos. 
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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Aristi’des (4 syl.).
 
Surnamed The Just. An Athenian statesman.   1
       
‘Then Aristides lifts his honest front,
Spotless of heart; to whom the unflattering voice
Of Freedom gave the noblest name of ‘Just.’”
       
Thomson: Winter, 459–61.
   The British Aristides. Andrew Marvell (1620–1678).   2
   The French Aristides. Mons. Grévy, born 1813, president of the Third Republic 1879–1887, died 1891. He was a barrister by profession.   3
 


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