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Aristides

American  
[ar-uh-stahy-deez] / ˌær əˈstaɪ diz /

noun

  1. the Just, 530?–468? b.c., Athenian statesman and general.


Aristides British  
/ ˌærɪˈstaɪdiːz /

noun

  1. known as Aristides the Just. ?530–?468 bc , Athenian general and statesman, who played a prominent part in the Greek victories over the Persians at Marathon (490), Salamis (480), and Plataea (479)

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The Greek orator Aristides claimed that to see all the products of the world, one had two choices: visit the entire world or simply go to Rome.

From The Wall Street Journal • Aug. 29, 2025

From the first Derby, won by Aristides in 1875, to this year’s race, one constant has remained.

From New York Times • May 4, 2024

Detectives have now asked the public to help locate Mate Stipinovich, 49, and Karl Whitburn, 45, from Perth, and 36-year-old Aristides Avlontis, who is thought to be in the Northern Territory.

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2023

The Brewers tied the game in the second on Victor Caratini’s RBI double and right fielder Aristides Aquino’s throwing error.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 23, 2022

Among the most renowned teachers of rhetoric—now distinctively called “Sophists,” or rhetoricians—were Dio Chrysostom, Aelius Aristides, Themistius, Himerius, Libanius and Herodes Atticus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 5 "Greek Law" to "Ground-Squirrel" by Various

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