59.
In this way offended love first led Harmodius
and Aristogiton to conspire, and the alarm of the moment to commit the rash
action recounted.
[2]
After this the tyranny pressed harder on the Athenians, and Hippias, now
grown more fearful, put to death many of the citizens, and at the same time
began to turn his eyes abroad for a refuge in case of revolution.
[3]
Thus, although an Athenian, he gave his daughter, Archedice, to a
Lampsacene, Aeantides, son of the tyrant of Lampsacus, seeing that they had
great influence with Darius.
And there is her tomb in Lampsacus with this inscription:—“
Archedice lies buried in this earth,
Hippias her sire, and Athens gave her birth;
Unto her bosom pride was never known,
Though daughter, wife, and sister to the throne.
”
[4]
Hippias, after reigning three years longer over the Athenians was deposed
in the fourth by the Lacedaemonians and the banished Alcmaeonidae, and went
with a safe conduct to Sigeum, and to Aeantides at Lampsacus, and from
thence to King Darius; from whose court he set out twenty years after, in his old age, and came
with the Medes to Marathon.
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