A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

(Ἀριστοκλῆς).

1. Of Rhodes, a Greek grammarian and rhetorician, who was a contemporary of Strabo. (xiv. p. 655.) He is probably the writer of whom Ammonius (de Diff. Voc. under ἐπικήδιος) mentions a work περὶ ποιητικῆς. There are several other works : viz. περὶ διαλέκτου (Etymol. M. s. v. κῦμα; comp. Cramer's Anecdot. i. p. 231, iii. p. 298), Λακώνων πολιτεία (Athen. 4.140), and a work on the history of Italy, of which Plutarch (Paral. Minor. 25, 41) mentions the third book,--which are ascribed to Aristocles; but whether all or only some of them belong to Aristocles the Rhodian, is uncertain. (Compare Clem. Al. Strom. vi. p. 267; Varr. de Ling. Lat. 10.10, 75, ed. Muller; Dionys. Dinarch. 8.)