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My father on the male side belonged to the Eupatrids,¹ whose noble birth is apparent from the very name. On the female side he was of the Alcmeonidae,² who left behind a glorious memorial of their wealth; for Alcmeon³ was the first Athenian to win at Olympia with a team of horses, and the goodwill which they had toward the people they displayed in the time of the tyrants. For they were kinsmen of Pisistratus⁴ and before he came to power were closest to him of all the citizens, but they refused to share his tyranny; on the contrary, they preferred exile rather than to see their fellow-citizens enslaved.

1 The Eupatrids （sons of noble sires） were the nobles, or patricians, in Athens of the early time.

2 Descendants of Alcmeon, one of the greatest families in early Athens, expelled from the city in 595 B.C.

3 Son of Megacles.

4 Pisistratus was a tyrant of Athens in the sixth century B.C.

Isocrates. Isocrates with an English Translation in three volumes, by George Norlin, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1980.

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