Aristocrates
(Ἀριστοκράτης).
1. King of Orchomenus in Arcadia, son of Aechmis, was stoned to death by his people for violating the virgin-priestess of Artemis Hymnia. (Paus. 8.5.8, 13.4.)
2. King of Orchomenus in Arcadia, son of Hicetas, and grandson of the preceding, was the leader of the Arcadians in the second Messenian war, when they espoused with other nations in the Peloponnesus the side of the Messenians. He was bribed by the Lacedaemonians, and was guilty of treachery at the battle of the Trench; and when this was discovered some years afterwards, he was stoned to death by the Arcadians. His family was deprived of the sovereignty according to Pausanias, or completely destroyed according to Polybius ; but the latter statement at all events cannot be correct, as we find that his son Aristodamus ruled over Orchomenus and a great part of Arcadia. The date of Aristocrates appears to have been about B. C. 680-640. (Strab. viii. p.362 ; Paus. 4.17.4, 22.2, &c., 8.5.8; Plb. 4.33; Plut. de sera Num. Vind. 100.2; Müller, Aeginetica, p. 65, Dor. 1.7.11.)
3. The son of Scellias. See below.
4. A person against whom Demosthenes wrote an oration. He wrote it for Euthycles, who accused Aristocrates of proposing an illegal decree in relation to Charidemus. [Charidemus.]
5. General of the Rhodians, about B. C. 154, apparently in the war against the Cretans. (Plb. 33.9, with Scweighäuser's note.)
6. An historian, the son of Hipparchus, and a Spartan, wrote a work on Lacedaemonian affairs (Λακωνικά), of which Athenaeus (iii. p. 82e.) quotes the fourth book, and which is also referred to by Plutarch (Plut. Lyc. 4, 31, Philop. 16), and other writers. (Steph. s. v. Ἀβάντις; Schol. ad Soph. Trach. 270.)
(Ἀριστοκράτης), an Athenian of wealth and influence (Plat. Gorg. p. 472a.), son of Scellias, attached himself to the oligarchical party, and was a member of the government of the Four Hundred, which, however, he was, together with Theramenes, a main instrument in overthrowing. (Thuc. 8.89, 92; Lys. c. Erat. p. 126 ; Demosth. c. Theocr. p. 1343.) Aristophanes (Aristoph. Birds 126) refers to him with a punning allusion to his name and politics. In 407, when Alcibiades, on his return to Athens, was made commander-in-chief, Aristocrates and Adeimantus were elected generals of the land forces under him. (Xen. Hell. 1.4.21; comp. Diod. 13.69; Nep. Alc. 100.7.) In the same year, Aristocrates was appointed one of the ten commanders who superseded Alcibiades, and he was among the six who were brought to trial and executed after the battle of Arginusae, B. C. 406. (Xen. Hell. 1.5.16, 6.29, 7. §§ 2, 34; Diod. 13.74, 101.) [E.E]
(Ἀριστοκράτης), a grammarian, whose remedy for the tooth-ache is preserved by Andromachus (ap. Gal. De Compos. Medicam. sec. Loc. 5.5, vol. xii. pp. 878, 879), and who must therefore have lived some time in or before the first century after Christ. He is also mentioned in the first volume of Cramer's Anecdota Graeca Parisiensia, p. 395. [W.A.G]
- Hdt. 6.73
- king of Arcadia, violates priestess of Artemis (Hymnia): Paus. 8.5.11ff., Paus. 8.13.5
- stoned by Arcadians: Paus. 8.5.12
- his grave: Paus. 8.13.5
- king of Arcadia: Paus. 4.17.2
- his treachery: Paus. 4.17.6-8, Paus. 4.22.3-6
- stoned by Arcadians: Paus. 4.22.7, Paus. 8.5.13