was brought to Hippias in the Ceramicus, he at once
proceeded not to the scene of action, but to the armed men in the
procession, before they, being some distance away, knew anything of the
matter, and composing his features for the occasion, so as not to betray
himself, pointed to a certain spot, and bade them repair thither without
their arms. They withdrew accordingly, fancying he had something to say;
upon which he told the mercenaries to remove the arms, and there and
then picked out the men he thought guilty and all found with daggers,
the shield and spear being the usual weapons for a procession.

In this way offended love first led Harmodius and Aristogiton to
conspire, and the alarm of the moment to commit the rash action
recounted. 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. 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.

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.

With these events in their minds, and recalling everything they knew by
hearsay on the subject, the Athenian people grow difficult of humour and
suspicious of the persons charged in the affair of the mysteries, and
persuaded that all that had taken place was part of an oligarchical and
monarchical conspiracy. In the state of irritation thus produced, many
persons of consideration had been already thrown into prison, and
far from showing any signs of abating, public feeling grew daily more
savage, and more arrests were made; until at last one of those in
custody, thought to be the most guilty of all, was induced by a fellow
prisoner to make a revelation, whether true or not is a matter on which
there are two opinions, no one having bee