=Aristogīton= and =Harmodius=, two celebrated friends of Athens, who by their joint efforts delivered their country from the tyranny of the Pisistratidæ, B.C. 510. They received immortal honours from the Athenians, and had statues raised to their memory. These statues were carried away by Xerxes when he took Athens. The conspiracy of Aristogiton was so secretly planned, and so wisely carried into execution, that it is said a courtesan bit her tongue off, not to betray the trust reposed in her. _Pausanias_, bk. 1, ch. 29. ――_Herodotus_, bk. 5, ch. 55.――_Plutarch_, _Lives of the Ten Orators_.――――An Athenian orator, surnamed _Canis_, from his impudence. He wrote orations against Timarchus, Timotheus, Hyperides, and Thrasyllus.――――A statuary. _Pausanias._ =Aristolāus=, a painter. _Pliny_, bk. 31, ch. 11. =Aristomăche=, the wife of Dionysius of Syracuse. _Cicero_, _Tusculanæ Disputationes_, bk. 5, ch. 20.――――The wife of Dion.――――A poetess. _Plutarch_, _Convivium Septem Sapientium_.――――A daughter of Priam, who married Critolaus. _Pausanias_, bk. 10, ch. 26. =Aristomăchus=, an Athenian, who wrote concerning the preparation of wine. _Pliny_, bk. 14, ch. 9.――――A man so excessively fond of bees, that he devoted 58 years of his life in raising swarms of them. _Pliny_, bk. 11, ch. 9.――――The son of Cleodæus and grandson of Hyllus, whose three sons, Cresphontes, Temenus, and Aristodemus, called Heraclidæ, conquered Peloponnesus. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 7; bk. 3, ch. 15.――_Herodotus_, bks. 6, 7, & 8.――――A man who laid aside his sovereign power at Argos, at the persuasion of Aratus. _Pausanias_, bk. 2, ch. 8. =Aristomēdes=, a Thessalian general in the interest of Darius III. _Curtius_, bk. 3, ch. 9.