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The story of the Persian war, from Herodotus
The story of the Persian war from Herodotus Author:Herodotus Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER II. OF THE TAKING OF MILETUS. The city of Athens had greatly increased in might since it was rid of its lords. The manner of the riddance was this.... more » For a while after Hipparchus had been slain—this Hippar- chus, with Hippias his brother, had received the lordship from Pisistratus his father, and he had been slain at the festival of Athene—the tyranny was more grievous than before. Now there was in Athens a great house, the sons of AlcmEeon, and these had been banished by the children of Pisistratus. At the first indeed, joining with others who were in like case, they sought to obtain their return by force, building a fort on Mount Parnes, whence they might attack the city; but they accomplished nothing. Then they devised this device. They made a covenant with the council of the Amphictyons that they would build the temple of Apollo :ioney. ; fairer iant— - great been me in -r the s they noney ne to came State, thens. 'cedae- their -it the id this ;nds to r the i men. --alerus. .1 of it, which -ame to rsemen, ;ta Bu dig am 8 th Pthat is in Delphi for a certain sum of money. But in the building they made all things fairer than according to the letter of the covenant— and this they could do by reason of their great wealth — and especially, when it had been agreed that they should use common stone in the building of the temple, they used for the front thereof marble of Paros. After this they persuaded the Pythia with a sum of money that whenever any men from Sparta came to ask counsel of the oracle, whether they came on their own affairs or the affairs of the State, she should bid them set free the city of Athens. When this message had come to the Lacedaemonians many times, they sent one of their chief citizens with an army to drive out the children of Pisistr...« less