=Aristæus=, son of Apollo and the nymph Cyrene, was born in the deserts of Libya, and brought up by the Seasons, and fed upon nectar and ambrosia. His fondness for hunting procured him the surname of Nomus and Agreus. After he had travelled over the greatest part of the world, Aristæus came to settle in Greece, where he married Autonoe the daughter of Cadmus, by whom he had a son called Actæon. He fell in love with Eurydice the wife of Orpheus, and pursued her in the fields. She was stung by a serpent that lay in the grass, and died, for which the gods destroyed all the bees of Aristæus. In this calamity he applied to his mother, who directed him to seize the sea-god Proteus, and consult him how he might repair the losses he had sustained. Proteus advised him to appease the manes of Eurydice by the sacrifice of four bulls and four heifers; and as soon as he had done it and left them in the air, swarms of bees immediately sprang from the rotten carcases, and restored Aristæus to his former prosperity. Some authors say that Aristæus had the care of Bacchus when young, and that he was initiated in the mysteries of this god. Aristæus went to live on mount Hæmus, where he died. He was, after death, worshipped as a demi-god. Aristæus is said to have learned from the nymphs the cultivation of olives, and the management of bees, &c., which he afterwards communicated to the rest of mankind. _Virgil_, _Georgics_, bk. 4, li. 317.――_Diodorus_, bk. 4.――_Justin_, bk. 13, ch. 7.――_Ovid_, _Fasti_, bk. 1, li. 363.――_Cicero_, _de Natura Deorum_, bk. 3, ch. 18.――_Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 17. ――_Hyginus_, fables 161, 180, 247.――_Apollodorus_, bk. 3, ch. 4. ――_Herodotus_, bk. 4, ch. 4, &c.――_Polyænus_, bk. 1, ch. 24.――――A general who commanded the Corinthian forces at the siege of Potidæa. He was taken by the Athenians and put to death. =Aristagŏras=, a writer who composed a history of Egypt. _Pliny_, bk. 36, ch. 12.――――A son-in-law of Histiæus tyrant of Miletus, who revolted from Darius, and incited the Athenians against Persia, and burnt Sardis. This so exasperated the king, that every evening before supper he ordered his servants to remind him of punishing Aristagoras. He was killed in a battle against the Persians, B.C. 499. _Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 30, &c.; bk. 7, ch. 8.――_Polyænus_, bk. 1, ch. 14.――――A man of Cyzicus.――――Another of Cumæ. _Herodotus_, bk. 4. =Aristander=, a celebrated soothsayer, greatly esteemed by Alexander. _Plutarch_, _Alexander_.――_Pliny_, bk. 17, ch. 25.――――An Athenian, who wrote on agriculture. =Aristandros=, a statuary of Sparta. _Pausanias_, bk. 3, ch. 18. =Aristarche=, a matron of Ephesus, who by order of Diana sailed to the coasts of Gaul with the Phocæans, and was made priestess. _Strabo_, bk. 4.