Green’s Dictionary of Slang

aristippus n.

[proper name Aristippus (c.435–366bc), Greek philosopher and founder of the rigorously hedonistic Cyrenaic school of philosophy]

1. Canary wine.

Middleton Works [Haliwell] II 422: Rich aristippus, sparkling sherry [F&H].
[UK]Defoe True Born Englishman in Works (1870) 598: The Sages [...] Praise Epicurus rather than Lysander, And Aristippus more than Alexander.

2. a diet drink, made of sarsparilla, cinchona bark and other ingredients, available at certain coffee houses.

[UK]B.E. Dict. Canting Crew n.p.: Aristippus, a Decoction of Sarsa, China, etc.
[UK]Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.