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20.
Having now given the result of my inquiries
into early times, I grant that there will be a difficulty in believing every
particular detail.
The way that most men deal with traditions, even traditions of their own
country, is to receive them all alike as they are delivered, without
applying any critical test whatever.
[2]
The general Athenian public fancy that Hipparchus was tyrant when he fell
by the hands of Harmodius and Aristogiton;
not knowing that Hippias, the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, was really
supreme, and that Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers; and that Harmodius and Aristogiton suspecting, on the very day, nay at the
very moment fixed on for the deed, that information had been conveyed to
Hippias by their accomplices, concluded that he had been warned, and did not
attack him, yet, not liking to be apprehended and risk their lives for
nothing, fell upon Hipparchus near the temple of the daughters of Leos, and
slew him as he was arranging the Panathenaic procession.
[3]
There are many other unfounded ideas current
among the rest of the Hellenes, even on matters of contemporary history
which have not been obscured by time. For instance, there is the notion that the Lacedaemonian kings have two
votes each, the fact being that they have only one; and that there is a company of Pitane, there being simply no such thing.
So little pains do the vulgar take in the investigation of truth, accepting
readily the first story that comes to hand.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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