Word: ariston
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Plato, the son of Ariston, said Professor Goodwin, was born in Aegina about 427 B. C. He became a pupil of Socrates and, after the death of his instructor, opened an academy in an olive grove north of Athens, near which he owned a house and garden. Among his pupils were Demosthenes, Lycurgus and Aristotle...
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