Book 6
59.1
It was in such wise, for an affront in love, that the plot of Harmodius and Aristogeiton was first conceived and their reckless attempt made under the influence of their momentary alarm.
59.2
After this the tyranny became harsher for the Athenians, and Hippias, being now in greater apprehension, not only put to death many of the citizens, but also began to look abroad, to see if in any quarter he might find any door of safety open to him in case of a revolution.
59.3
At any rate after this he gave his own daughter Archedice in marriage to Aeantides son of Hippocles, tyrant of Lampsacus—an Athenian to a Lampsacene!—perceiving that this family had great influence with King Darius. And there is at Lampsacus a monument of her bearing this inscription:Ascribed to Simonides of Ceos (Aristotle, Rhet. i. 9).This dust covers Archedice daughter of Hippias, Who was foremost in Hellas among the men of his time: Her father and husband, her brothers and children were tyrants, Yet was not her mind lifted up to vainglory. Hippias, however, after being tyrant for three years more at Athens, was then deposed510 B.C. in the fourth year by the Lacedaemonians and the exiled Alcmaeonidae, and retired under truce to Sigeium, from there to Aeantides at Lampsacus, and thence to the court of King Darius;
59.4
whence twenty years later, being already an old man, he went with the Persians on the expedition to Marathon.
60.1
With these events in mind and recalling all that they knew of them by report, the Athenian people were in an ugly temper at this time and suspicious towards those who had incurred blame in the matter of the mysteries; and the whole thing seemed to them to have been done in connection with a conspiracy that aimed at an oligarchy or a tyranny.
