ongs from
the sea of Hellas to Susa (for by that name the city of Memnon is known)
is fourteen thousand and forty; for the number of furlongs from Ephesos
to Sardis is five hundred and forty: thus the three months' journey is
lengthened by three days added.

55. Aristagoras then being driven out of Sparta proceeded to Athens;
which had been set free from the rule of despots in the way which I
shall tell.--When Hipparchos the son of Peisistratos and brother of the
despot Hippias, after seeing a vision of a dream which signified it to
him plainly, 48 had been slain by Aristogeiton and Harmodios, who were
originally by descent Gephyraians, the Athenians continued for
four years after this to be despotically governed no less than
formerly,--nay, even more.

56. Now the vision of a dream which Hipparchos had was this:--in the
night before the Panathenaia it seemed to Hipparchos that a man came
and stood by him, tall and of fair form, and riddling spoke to him these
verses:

"With enduring soul as a lion endure unendurable evil:
No one of men who doth wrong shall escape from the judgment appointed."

These verses, as soon as it was day, he publicly communicated to the
interpreters of dreams; but afterwards he put away thought of the vision
49 and began to take part in that procession during which he lost his
life.

57. Now the Gephyraians, of whom were those who murdered Hipparchos,
according to their own account were originally descended from Eretria;
but as I find by carrying inquiries back, they were Phenicians of those
who came with Cadmos to the land which is now called Boeotia, and they
dwelt in the district of Tanagra, which they had had allotted to them
in that land. Then after the Cadmeians had first been driven out by the
Argives, these Gephyraians next were driven out by the Boeotians and
turned then towards Athens: and the Athenians received them on certain
fixed conditions to be citizens of their State, laying down rules that
they should be excluded from a number of things not worth mentioning
here.

58. Now these Phenicians who came with Cadmos, of whom were the
Gephyraians, brought in among the Hellenes many arts when they settled
in this land of Boeotia, and especially letters, which did not exist, as
it appears to me, among the Hellenes before this time; and at first they
brought in those which are used by the Phenician race generally, but
afterwards, as time went on, they changed with their spee