Aristiʹdes (4 syl.)

Surnamed The Just. An Athenian statesman.

‘Then Aristides lifts his honest front,

Spotless of heart; to whom the unflattering voice

Of Freedom gave the noblest name of ‘Just.ʹ”

Thomson: Winter, 459–61.

The British Aristides. Andrew Marvell (1620–1678).

The French Aristides. Mons. Grévy, born 1813, president of the Third Republic 1879–1887, died 1891. He was a barrister by profession.

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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