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The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Poetry - Volume 1

Note 71 — THE TEMPLE OF FAME.

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Aristides, who for his great integrity was distinguished by the appellation of the Just. When his countrymen would have banished him by the ostracism, where it was the custom for every man to sign the name of the person he voted to exile in an oyster-shell, a peasant, who could not write, came to Aristides to do it for him, who readily signed his own name.—Pope.

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