Herodotus, The Histories, Book 5, chapter 62

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I have told both of the vision of Hipparchus' dream and of the first origin of the Gephyreans, to whom the slayers of Hipparchus belonged. Now I must go further and return to the story which I began to tell, namely how the Athenians were freed from their tyrants. [2] Hippias, their tyrant, was growing ever more bitter in enmity against the Athenians because of Hipparchus' death, and the Alcmeonidae, a family of Athenian stock banished by the sons of Pisistratus, attempted with the rest of the exiled Athenians to make their way back by force and free Athens. They were not successful in their return and suffered instead a great reverse. After fortifying Lipsydrium north of Paeonia, they, in their desire to use all devices against the sons of Pisistratus, hired themselves to the Amphictyons for the building of the temple at Delphi which exists now but was not there yet then. [3] Since they were wealthy and like their fathers men of reputation, they made the temple more beautiful than the model showed. In particular, whereas they had agreed to build the temple of tufa, they made its front of Parian marble.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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- Sir Richard C. Jebb, Commentary on Sophocles: Ajax, 636
- Basil L. Gildersleeve, Pindar: The Olympian and Pythian Odes, 7
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- Herbert Weir Smyth, A Greek Grammar for Colleges, THE CASES
- Andrew Stewart, One Hundred Greek Sculptors, Their Careers and Extant Works, The Archaic Period
- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
- Harper's, Delphi
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), AMPHIC´TYONES
- A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities (1890), TEMPLUM
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), A´TTICA
- Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), DELPHI
- Smith's Bio, Peisi'stratus
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- LSJ, ἀναλαμβάνω
- LSJ, ἔμπροσθ-εν
- LSJ, ἐξοικοδομ-έω
- LSJ, ἐκποι-έω
- LSJ, ἐλευθερ-όω
- LSJ, ἐμπικραίνομαι
- LSJ, φεύγω
- LSJ, ἥκω
- LSJ, κάτειμι
- LSJ, λειψυδρία
- LSJ, λίθος
- LSJ, μισθ-όω
- LSJ, παράδειγ-μα
- LSJ, ποιέω
- LSJ, προσ-πταίω
- LSJ, προχωρ-έω
- LSJ, πώρι^νος
- LSJ, σύγκειμαι

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