Kitap 5
55.1
When he was forced to leave Sparta [22.4417,37.0667] (Perseus) Sparta, Aristagoras went to Athens [23.7333,37.9667] (Perseus)Athens, which had been freed from its ruling tyrants in the manner that I will show. First Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus and brother of the tyrant Hippias, had been slain by Aristogiton and Harmodius, men of Gephyraean descent. This was in fact an evil of which he had received a premonition in a dream. After this the Athenians were subject for four years to a tyranny not less but even more absolute than before.
56.1
Now this was the vision which Hipparchus saw in a dream: in the night before the Panathenaea he thought that a tall and handsome man stood over him uttering these riddling verses: O lion, endure the unendurable with a lion's heart. No man on earth does wrong without paying the penalty.
56.2
As soon as it was day, he imparted this to the interpreters of dreams, and presently putting the vision from his mind, he led the procession in which he met his death. Hipparchus was killed in 513.
57.1
Now the Gephyraean clan, of which the slayers of Hipparchus were members, claim to have come at first from +Eretria [23.8083,38.3917] (Perseus) Eretria, but my own enquiry shows that they were among the Phoenicians Gephyra (=bridge or dam) was another name for +Tanagra [23.6,38.3083] (Perseus) Tanagra; perhaps Herodotus' theory of an oriental origin is based on the fact that there was a place called Gephyrae in +Syria [38,35] (nation), Asia Syria. who came with Cadmus to the country now called Boeotia (department), Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Boeotia. In that country the lands of +Tanagra [23.6,38.3083] (Perseus) Tanagra were allotted to them, and this is where they settled.
