Generous aids = allies.
Tydides—Diomede.
From age inglorious and black death secure = safe from inglorious age and from black death.
Hecatombs. Sacrifices of 100 oxen.
Ungrateful offering = unpleasing offering.
Xanthus. The other river in the neighbourhood of Troy.
Umbered = thrown into shadow, and glimmering in the darkness.]
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ARISTIDES.
Aristides at first was loved and respected for his surname of the Just, and afterwards envied as much; the latter, chiefly by the management of Themistocles, who gave it out among the people that Aristides had abolished the courts of judicature, by drawing the arbitration of all causes to himself, and so was insensibly gaining sovereign power, though without guards and the other ensigns of it. The people, elevated with the late victory at Marathon, thought themselves capable of everything, and the highest respect little enough for them. Uneasy, therefore, at finding any one citizen rose to such extraordinary honour and distinction, they assembled at Athens from all the towns in Attica, and banished Aristides by the Ostracism; disguising their envy of his character under the specious pretence of guarding against tyranny.