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ARISTIDES, called The Just (c.550-467 B.C.). An Athenian Statesman. He was the son of Lysimachus and was descended from one of the best families in Athens. At the battle of Marathon (490 b.c.) he was one of the 10 Athenian generals who held command successively, each for a single day.
Francis L. Hawks, ed. Pictorial Cyclopaedia of Biography (New York: D. Appleton & Co., 1856) 50.
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