ARISTI’DES (The British), Andrew Marvell, an influential member of the House of Commons in the reign of Charles II.  He refused every offer of promotion, and a direct bribe tendered to him by the lord treasurer.  Dying in great poverty, he was buried, like Aristides, at the public expense (1620-1678).

ARISTIP’POS, a Greek philosopher of Cyre’ne, who studied under Soc’rates, and set up a philosophic school of his own, called “he’donism” ([Greek:  aedonae] “pleasure").

[Illustration] C. M. Wieland has an historic novel in German, called Aristippus, in which he sets forth the philosophical dogmas of this Cyrenian (1733-1813).

An axiom of Aristippos was Omnis Aristippum decuit color, et status, et res (Horace, Epist. i. 17, 23); and his great precept was Mihi res, non me rebus subjungere (Horace, Epist. i.  I, 18).

I am a sort of Aristippus, and can equally accommodate myself to company and solitude, to affluence and frugality.—­Lesage, Gil Blas, v. 12 (1715).

ARISTOBU’LUS, called by Drayton Aristob’ulus (Rom. xvi. 10), and said to be the first that brought to England the “glad tidings of salvation.”  He was murdered by the Britons.

  The first that ever told Christ crucified to us,
  By Paul and Peter sent, just Aristob’ulus ... 
  By the Britons murdered was.

Drayton, Polyolbion, xxiv. (1622).

ARISTOM’ENES (5 syl.), a young Messenian of the royal line, the “Cid” of ancient Messe’nia.  On one occasion he entered Sparta by night to suspend a shield from the temple of Pallas.  On the shield were inscribed these words:  “Aristomenes from the Spartan spoils dedicates this to the goddess.”

[Illustration] A similar tale is told of Fernando Perez del Pulgar, when serving under Ferdinand of Castile at the siege of Grana’da.  With fifteen companions he entered Granada, then in the power of the Moors, and nailed to the door of the principal mosque with his dagger a tablet inscribed “Ave Maria!” then galloped back, before the guards recovered from their amazement.—­Washington Irving, Conquest of Granada, 91.

ARISTOPH’ANES (5 syl.), a Greek who wrote fifty-four comedies, eleven of which have survived to the present day (B.C. 444-380).  He is called “The Prince of Ancient Comedy,” and Menander “The Prince of New Comedy” (B.C. 342-291).

The English or Modern Aristophanes, Samuel Foote (1722-1777).

The French Aristophanes, J. Baptiste Poquelin de Moliere (1622-1673).

ARISTOTLE.  The mistress of this philosopher was Hepyllis; of Plato, Archionassa; and of Epicurus, Leontium.

Aristotle of China, Tehuhe, who died A.D. 1200, called “The Prince of Science.”

Aristotle of Christianity, Thomas Aqui’nas, who tried to reduce the doctrines of faith to syllogistic formulae (1224-1274).