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55.
That Hippias was the eldest son and succeeded
to the government, is what I positively assert as a fact upon which I have
had more exact accounts than others, and may be also ascertained by the
following circumstance.
He is the only one of the legitimate brothers that appears to have had
children; as the altar shows, and the pillar placed in the Athenian Acropolis,
commemorating the crime of the tyrants, which mentions no child of Thessalus
or of Hipparchus, but five of Hippias, which he had by Myrrhine, daughter of
Callias, son of Hyperechides; and naturally the eldest would have married first.
[2]
Again, his name comes first on the pillar after that of his father, and
this too is quite natural, as he was the eldest after him, and the reigning
tyrant.
[3]
Nor can I ever believe that Hippias would have obtained the tyranny so
easily, if Hipparchus had been in power when he was killed, and he, Hippias,
had had to establish himself upon the same day; but he had no doubt been long accustomed to over-awe the citizens, and to
be obeyed by his mercenaries, and thus not only conquered, but conquered
with ease, without experiencing any of the embarrassment of a younger
brother unused to the exercise of authority.
[4]
It was the sad fate which made Hipparchus famous that got him also the
credit with posterity of having been tyrant.
Thucydides. The Peloponnesian War. London, J. M. Dent; New York, E. P. Dutton. 1910.
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