Aristides
historical figure · 13 works · 19 mentions · 22 anchored passages
Aristides son of Lysimachus · Aelius Aristides
in the texts
Orations
Athenian statesman credited with benefiting the Athenians.
the Athenians from Solon and Aristides and Pericles the disciple of Anaxagoras;
To Croesus she gives gold, to Candaules a wife, to Peleus a sword, to Nestor a shield, to Pterelaus a golden lock of hair, to Nisus a purple lock, to Alcibiades beauty, to Socrates wisdom, to Aristides justice, to the Lacedaemonians the land, to the Athenians the sea.
The Athenians ostracized Aristides, though clearly convinced that he was just.
The Rights of War and Peace
Figure cited as observing that just cause shifted to the Thebans after the Lacedaemonians' refusal of equitable terms.
” In the same manner, when the Thebans had offered the most equitable terms to the Lacedaemonians, who still rose higher in their demands, Aristides says, that the justice of the cause changed sides and passed from the Lacedaemonians to the Thebans.
As Aristides says, it is a moral duty in a storm, to save the ship by casting overboard the goods, but not the crew.
Aristides, encouraging the Rhodians to harmony, observes, that even under a tyrannical government many good laws may be found.
On Moral Ends
Athenian statesman known as 'the Just'
Read the panegyrics, Torquatus — not of those who were praised by Homer, not of Cyrus, not of Agesilaus, not of Aristides or Themistocles, not of Philip or Alexander;
Who does not love Aristides, though dead?
Constitution of the Athenians
Athenian statesman noted for justice, co-leader with Themistocles, proposer of public maintenance and tribute assessment
then Themistocles and Aristides;
They also established for the multitude an abundant maintenance, as Aristides had proposed.
Seventh, after this, the one Aristides indicated and Ephialtes completed, by overthrowing the Council of the Areopagus;
Tusculan Disputations
Athenian statesman, ostracized for being excessively just
Aristides — for I prefer to bring forward Greek rather than our own examples — was he not expelled from his country for this cause, that he was just beyond measure?
Third Olynthiac
An admired Athenian statesman invoked as part of the ancestral model.
I refer to the famous Aristides, to Nicias, to my own namesake, and to Pericles.
yet in private they were so modest, so careful to obey the spirit of the constitution, that the houses of their famous men, of Aristides or of Miltiades, as any of you can see that knows them, are not a whit more splendid than those of their neighbors.
The Histories
Athenian general commanding the Athenian contingent on the left wing of the Greek army at Plataea.
They were eight thousand in number, and their general was Aristides son of Lysimachus.
On the Peace
An earlier Athenian statesman used as a standard of superior civic leadership.
Now the polity as it was in the earlier time was as much better and stronger than that which obtained later as Aristides and Themistocles and Miltiades were better men than Hyperbolus and Cleophon and those who today harangue the people.
Consolation to Helvia
Aristides 'the Just,' Athenian statesman, cited as an example of one who bore public contempt (being spat upon) while being led to execution with equanimity.
Aristides was being led to execution at Athens;
On Benefits
Athenian statesman known as 'the Just,' cited as an example in the objection to Stoic doctrine
Is Aristides, to whom justice gave his name, unjust?
Ad Nationes
Athenian statesman renowned for justice, noted as passed over in pagan myths of post-mortem judges.
This you ascribe to Minos and Rhadamanthus, the juster Aristides being meanwhile rejected.
Apologeticum
Athenian statesman noted for justice.
How many better men, nevertheless, have you left in the lower world!
History of the Peloponnesian War
Athenian commander of ships levying contributions near the Hellespont who helps recover Antandrus.
The same summer, when Antandrus was going to be strengthened by the Mytilenaeans, as they were planning [when we last mentioned them], Demodocus and Aristides, the commanders of the ships sent to levy contributions, being about the Hellespont, (for Lamachus, their third colleague, had sailed with ten ships into the Pontus,) became aware of the provisions made for the place, and thinking there was …