Aristarchus

but as Aristoxenus, in his Life of Pythagoras, and Aristarchus and Theopompus say, he was a Tyrrhenian;

But Aristarchus, in his Notes on Archilochus, says he flourished about the Ionian colony, which took place a hundred and forty years after the Trojan matters.

But meantime Aristarchus, the governor at Byzantium, arrived with two triremes and, having been persuaded to this course by Pharnabazus, not only forbade the shipmasters to carry the army across, but came to the camp and told the soldiers not to pass over into Asia.

As soon as Pharnabazus learned, however, that Aristarchus had come to Byzantium as governor and that Anaxibius was no longer admiral, he paid no heed to Anaxibius, but set about making the same arrangement with Aristarchus in regard to Cyru s’ army as he had had with Anaxibius.

Anaxibius, then, charged Aristarchus to sell as slaves all the soldiers of Cyru s’ army that he might find left behind at Byzantium.

You would do a monstrous thing if, after granting in the past to Aristarchus, the destroyer of the democracy and afterwards the betrayer of Oenoe to your enemies the Thebans, a day in which to defend himself as he pleased, and allowing him all his other rights under the law,—if, I say, you shall now deprive the generals, who have done everything to your satisfaction, and have defeated the enemy, of these same rights.

But when the Lacedaemonians did not in the least relax their efforts in prosecuting the war, and Aristoteles, Melanthius, Aristarchus, and their fellow-generals were found to be building a fort on the peninsula, into which they proposed to admit the enemy and so bring the state under the control of themselves and their oligarchical associates,—if I perceived this plan and thwarted it, is that bein …

but you, who claim to be a man—that you really are a man I should not venture to say—you were once indicted for desertion, and you saved yourself by buying off the man who indicted you, Nicodemus of Aphidna, whom afterward you helped Aristarchus to destroy;

You entered a happy home, that of Aristarchus the son of Moschus;

And many others too have written, some praising the poet outright while at the same time expounding some of the things said by him, others setting forth this very thing, his meaning — not only Aristarchus and Crates and several others of those afterward called grammarians, but formerly critics.

And shall I review the trifles of Aristarchus, with which he pricked the poems of others, and waste my years on syllables?

After communicating therefore with these, Aristarchus deceived those in Oenoe, by telling them that their countrymen in the city had made a general surrender to the Lacedmaeonians, and they must give up the place to the Boeotians;

while Aristarchus alone of them, happening to be in office as general, took with all haste some of the most barbarous amongst the archers, and proceeded to Oenoe.

but Aristarchus and those who were opposed to the popular party were in a violent rage.

Well, well, said Aristarchus, your advice seems so good, Socrates, that I think I shall now bring myself to borrow capital to make a start.

but if you exert your authority and make them work, you will love them, when you find that they are profitable to you, and they will be fond of you, when they feel that you are pleased with them.

How is it that with so many mouths to feed Ceramon not only contrives to provide for the needs of himself and his family, but actually saves enough to make him a rich man, whereas you, with so many mouths to feed, fear you will all be starved to death?