Excerpt from The Historic Gallery of Portraits and Paintings, Vol. 7 These ten generals alternately took the command. The day arriving during which Aristides was to direct the army, he committed the management of it to Mil tiades, of whose military talents and approved valour he was fully sensible, feeling himself happy to obey a gene ral of such superior experience. Aristides was present at the celebrated battle Of Marathon, and was entrusted after the victory with the care Of the prisoners and of the booty, in which office he acquitted himself to the entire satisfaction of the army. The following year he was appointed Archon, and received the distinguished epithet of the Just. His integrity was a pretext for his destruction. Themistocles having represented that his virtues were only exhibited as a means Of ele vating him to the supreme power, - that conceiving mankind like himself, he had abolished the tribunals, and that he insensibly produced a. Monarchy divested Of all pomp and attendants; the people of Athens, with consummate ingratitude, banished Aristides for ten years, by the medium of Ostracism. It was upon this occasion that a countryman, who was ignorant of his person, requested him to inscribe on his shell thecannon] aristides. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.