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Fall of the Tyranny 137
build the temple at Delphi. This transaction provided The Lacedasmonians
them well with the means of gaining the aid of the Laco- war against
nians. Whenever, accordingly, the Lacedaemonians con-
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suited the oracle, the Pythia always replied that they must
set Athens free, till she succeeded in persuading the
Spartans notwithstanding that they were guest-friends
of the Peisistratidse. There was added a no small cause
of the undertaking on the part of the Laconians in the
alliance existing between the Argives and the Peisistratidffi.
In the first place they despatched Anchimolus M-ith
an army by sea. He was beaten and slain with the aid of
Cineas the Thessalian, who came with a thousand cavalry.
Enraged at the event, they sent by land with a larger force
Cleomenes the king, who after defeating the Thessalian
horsemen in their endeavor to prevent his invasion of
Attica, drove Hippias into the so-called Pelargic wall, and
besieged him there with the aid of the Athenians. This
event took place in the archonship of Harpactides, after
they had held the tyranny about seventeen years since
the death of their father, and including his reign, forty
nine years in all.
V. Cleisthenes and the Democracy
. r, T • Cleisthenes
When the tyranny had alien, a sedition arose between and Isag-
Isagoras, son of Teisander, a friend of the tyrants, and °o9%x:°"
Cleisthenes of the gens of the AlcmeonidcC. Beaten by Arist.
means of the clubs, Cleisthenes attached the commons 20.
to himself by promising the franchise to the masses. Isa- Because they
goras, now pro\ing inferior in strength, called to his aid piously slain
Cleomenes, his guest-friend, and persuaded him to expel ^1?^^ ^^
Cylon;
the pollution; for it was the common opinion that the
Greece, 46;
Ancient
Alcmeonidae were under a curse. Thereupon Cleisthenes World, 128 f.