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On hearing this, Aristides made no answer, but wrote his name on the ostrakon and handed it back.
Perhaps merely the sense that someone had become too arrogant or prominent was enough to get someone's name onto an ostrakon.
Some of the preserved manuscripts of Sappho's poetry, such as the ostrakon on which fragment 2 is preserved, are from the third century BC, predating the standard edition of Sappho's poetry.
In one anecdote about Aristides, known as " the Just ", who was ostracised in 482, an illiterate citizen, not recognising him, came up to ask him to write the name Aristides on his ostrakon.
"Now at the time of which I was speaking, as the voters were inscribing their ostraka, it is said that an unlettered and utterly boorish fellow handed his ostrakon to Aristides, whom he took to be one of the ordinary crowd, and asked him to write'Aristides'on it.