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56-59] ASSASSINATION OF HIPPARCHUS 223 with Hippias, who was readily accessible to all, they took alarm, and imagined that they had been betrayed and yere on the point of being seized. Whereupon they determined to take their revenge first on the man who had outraged them and was the cause of their desperate attempt. So they rushed, just as they were, within the gates. They found Hipparchus near the Leocorium, as it was called, and then and there falling upon him with all the blind fury, one of an injured lover, the other of a man smarting under an insult, they smote and slew him. The crowd ran together, and so Aristogiton for the present escaped the guards ; but he was afterwards taken and not very gently handled. Harmodius perished on the spot. The news was carried to Hippias at the Ceramicus; he 58 went at once, not to the place, but to ' Hippias, dissembliMg the armed men who were to march in ^"^ Jeehngs mutnves . to aisanii the atizeiis the procession and, being at a distance, „„^ rt;;rs/ the shs- were as yet ignorant of what had hap- peded. pened. Betraying nothing in his looks of the calamity which had befallen him, he bade them leave their arms and go to a certain spot which he pointed out. They, supposing that he had something to say to them, obeyed, and then bidding his guards seize the arms, he at once selected those whom he thought guilty, and all who were found carrying daggers ; for the custom was to march in the procession with spear and shield only. Such was the conspiracy of Harmodius and Aristogiton, 59 which began in the resentment of a fhe rule of Hippias lover ; the reckless attempt which fol- groivs oppressive. He lowed arose out of a sudden fright, is deposed by the Lace- daeiiiouiatts, and goes To the people at large the tyranny /^ ,i„ .^urt of Persia. simply became more oppressive, and Epitaph of his daughter Hippias, after his brother's death living ^>-^'>^d'^^- in great fear, slew many of the citizens ; he also began to look abroad in hope of securing an asylum should a revolu- tion occur. Himself an Athenian, he married his daughter Archedice to a Lampsacene, Aeantides, son of Hippoclus