History of the Peloponnesian War

In this manner both the original conspiracy was entered into by Harmodius and Aristogiton for a love offence, and their rash venture attempted through their alarm at the moment.

After this, the tyranny was more severe on the Athenians than before; and Hippias, being now in greater apprehension, both put to death many of the citizens, and kept his eye also on foreign states, in whatever quarter he had a prospect of a safe retreat being secured for him, in case of any revolution.

At any rate, he married his daughter Archedice to Aeantides, son of the tyrant of Lampsacus— [*]( i. e. to a native of a place so very far beneath his own country in reputation. Compare III. 59. 6, μὴ πλαταιῆς οντες ... θηβαίοις ... παραδοθῆναι: where, as in many other places, the omission of the article with the name of a people expresses something respecting the character of the people, whether good or bad.) Athenian as he was, to a Lampsacene—because he saw that they had great influence with king Darius. There is a monument to her at Lampsacus, with this inscription:

2. Beneath this dust Archedice finds peace,
3. Whose sire was Hippias, peerless once in Greece.
4. She, though of tyrants daughter, sister, bride,
5. And mother, ne'er was lifted up with pride.

With regard to Hippias, having retained the tyranny at Athens three years longer, and being deposed in the fourth year by the Lacedaemonians and the banished Alcmaeonidae he went, under treaty, to Sigeum, then to Aeantides at Lampsacus, and thence to the court of king Darius; from which also he set out twenty years after, when now an old man, and accompanied the Median forces to Marathon.