use of the death of Hipparchos, the Alcmaionidai,
who were of Athenian race and were fugitives from the sons of
Peisistratos, 52 as they did not succeed in their attempt made together
with the other Athenian exiles to return by force, but met with great
disaster when they attempted to return and set Athens free, after they
had fortified Leipsydrion which is above Paionia,--these Alomaionidai
after that, still devising every means against the sons of Peisistratos,
accepted the contract to build and complete the temple at Delphi, that
namely which now exists but then did not as yet: and being wealthy and
men of repute already from ancient time, they completed the temple in
a manner more beautiful than the plan required, and especially in this
respect, that having agreed to make the temple of common limestone, 53
they built the front parts of it in Parian marble.

63. So then, as the Athenians say, these men being settled at Delphi
persuaded the Pythian prophetess by gifts of money, that whenever men of
the Spartans should come to inquire of the Oracle, either privately
or publicly sent, she should propose to them to set Athens free. The
Lacedemonians therefore, since the same utterance was delivered to them
on all occasions, sent Anchimolios the son of Aster, who was of repute
among their citizens, with an army to drive out the sons of Peisistratos
from Athens, although these were very closely connected with them by
guest-friendship; for they held that the concerns of the god 5301 should
be preferred to those of men: and this force they sent by sea in ships.
He therefore, having put in to shore at Phaleron, disembarked his army;
but the sons of Peisistratos being informed of this beforehand called
in to their aid an auxiliary force from Thessaly, for they had made an
alliance with the Thessalians; and the Thessalians at their request
sent by public resolution a body of a thousand horse and also their king
Kineas, a man of Conion. 54 So having obtained these as allies, the sons
of Peisistratos contrived as follows:--they cut down the trees in the
plain of Phaleron and made this district fit for horsemen to ride over,
and after that they sent the cavalry to attack the enemy's camp,
who falling upon it slew (besides many others of the Lacedemonians)
Anchimolios himself also: and the survivors of them they shut up in
their ships. Such was the issue of the first expedition from Lacedemon:
and the burial-place of Anchimolios is