§17XVII. Πεισίστρατος μὲν οὗν ἐγκατεγήρασε τῇ ἀρχῇ καῖ ἀπέθανε νοσήσας ἐπὶ θιλόνεω ἄρχοντος, ἀφ᾿ οὗ μὲν κατέστη τὸ πρῶτον τύραννος ἔτη τριάκοντα καὶ τρία βιώσας, ἅ δ᾿ ἐν τῇ ἀρχῇ διέμεινεν ἑνὸς δέοντα εἴκοσι· ἔφευγε γὰρ τὰ λοιπά.
XVII. Peisistratus, then, grew old in his rule and died of an illness during the archonship of Philoneos, having lived thirty-three years from the time he first became tyrant, and of these he remained in power for nineteen years, for he was in exile during the rest.
διὸ καὶ φανερῶς ληροῦσιν <οἱ> φάσκοντες | ἐρώμενον εἶναι Πεισίστρα[τον] Σόλωνος καὶ στρατηλεῖν ἐν τῷ πρὸς Μεγαρέας πολέμῳ περὶ Σαλαμῖνος· οὐ γὰρ ἐνδέχεται ταῖς ἡλικίαις, ἐὰν τις ἀναλογίζηται τὸν ἐκατέρου βίον· καὶ ἐφ᾿ οὖ ἀπέθανεν ἂρχοντος.
Therefore those who say that Peisistratus was the beloved of Solon and held a generalship in the war against the Megarians over Salamis are clearly talking nonsense; for it is not possible on account of their ages, if one calculates the life of each, and the archonship under which he died.
τελευτήσαντος δὲ Πεισιστράτου κατεῖχον οἱ υἱεῖς τὴν ἀρχήν, προάγοντες τὰ πρά γματα αὐτὸν τρόπον.
When Peisistratus died, his sons held the power, conducting affairs in the same manner.
ἦσαν δὲ δὲ δύο μὲν ἐκ τῆς λαμετῆς, Ἱππίας καὶ “Ιππαρχος, δύο δ᾿ ἐκ τῆς᾿ Αργείας, Ἰοφῶν καὶ Ἠγησόστρατος, ῷ παρωνύμιον ἦν Θέτταλος.
There were two from his lawful wife, Hippias and Hipparchus, and two from the Argive woman, Iophon and Hegesistratus, who had the nickname Thessalus.
ἒγημεν γὰρ Πεισίστρατος ἐξ Ἄργους ἀνδρὸς Ἀργείου θυγατέρα, ᾦ ἂνομα ἦν Γοργίλος, Τιμώνασσαν, ἣν πρότερον ἒσχεν γυναῖκα Ἀρχῖνος ὁ Ἀμπρακιώτης τῶν Κυψελιδῶν· ὃθεν καὶ ἡ πρὸς τοὺς Ἀργείους ἐνέστη φιλία, καὶ συνεμαχέσαντο χίλιοι τὴν ἐπὶ Παλληνίδι μάχην Ἡγησιστράτου κομόσαντος.
For Peisistratus married a woman from Argos, Timonassa, the daughter of an Argive man named Gorgilus, whom Archinus the Ambraciote, one of the Cypselids, had previously had as his wife; whence also his friendship with the Argives arose, and a thousand of them fought as allies in the battle of Pallene, brought by Hegesistratus.
γῆμαι δέ φασι τὴν Ἀργείαν οἱ μὲν ἐκπεσόντα τὸ πρῶτον, οἱ δὲ κατέχοντα τὴν ἀρχήν.
Some say he married the Argive woman when he was first expelled, others when he held the rule.
§18XVIII. ἦσαν κύριοι μὲν τῶν πραγμάτων διὰ τὰ ἀξιώματα καὶ διὰ τὰς ἡλικίας Ἵππρχος καὶ Ἰππίας, πρεσβύτερος δέ ὢν ὁ Ἱππίας καὶ τῇ φύσει πολιτικὸς καὶ ἒμφρων ἐπεστάτει τῆς ἀρχῆς.
XVIII. Hipparchus and Hippias were in control of affairs because of their standing and their ages, but Hippias being the older and by nature political and sensible directed the government.
ὁ δὲ Ἵππαρχος παιδιώδης καὶ ἐρωτικὸς καὶ φιλόμουσος ἦν (καὶ τοὺς περὶ Ἀνακπέοντα καὶ καὶ τοὺς ἂλλους ποιητὰς οὖτος ὁ μεταπεμπόμενος), Θέτταλος δὲ νεώτερος πολὺ καὶ τῷ βίῳ θρασὺς καὶ ὑβριστὴς, ἀφ᾿ οὖ καὶ συνέβη τὴν ἀρχὴν αὐτοῖς γενέσθαι πάντων τῶν κακῶν.
Hipparchus was playful, amorous, and fond of the arts (it was he who invited Anacreon, Simonides, and the other poets); while Thessalus was much younger, and bold and insolent in his life, from whom indeed arose for them the beginning of all their evils.
ἐρασθεὶς γὰρ τοῦ Ἀρμοδίου καὶ διαμαρτὰωνω τῆς πρὸς αὐτὸν φιλίας οὐ κατεῖχε τὴν ὀργήν, ἀλλ᾿ ἒν τε τοῖς ἂλλοις ἐνεσημαίνετο πιχρῶς καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον μέλλουσαν αὐτοῦ τὴν ἀδελφὴν κανηφορεῖν Παναθηναίοις ἐκώλυσεν λοιδορήσας τι τὸν Ἁρμόδιον ὡς μαλακὸν ὂντα, ὃθεν συνέβη παβοξυνθέντα τὸν Ἁρμόσιον καὶ τὸν Ἀρισογείτονα πράττειν τὴν πρᾶξιν μετεχοντων πολλῶν.
For having fallen in love with Harmodius, and failing to obtain his friendship, he could not restrain his anger, but showed it bitterly in other ways, and finally, when Harmodius' sister was about to be a basket-bearer at the Panathenaia, he prevented her, insulting Harmodius as being effeminate; whence it happened that Harmodius and Aristogeiton, being provoked, carried out their deed with many sharing in it.
ἢδη δὲ παρατηροῦντες ὲν ἀκροπόλει τοῖς Παναθηναίοις Ἰππίαν (ἐτύγχανεν γὰρ οὖτος μὲν [δ]εχόμενος, Ιππαρχος ἀποστέλλων τὴν πομπὴν), ἰδόντες τινἀ τῶν κοινωνούντων τῆς πρά[ξ]εως φιλανθρώπως ἐντυγχάνοντα τῷ Ἱππίᾳ καὶ νομίσαντες μηνύειν, βουλύμενοί τι δρᾶσαι πρὸ τῆς συλλήψεως, καταβάντες καὶ προεξαναστάντες τῶν [ἄλλω]ν τὸν μὲν Ἵππαρχον διακοσμοῦντα τὴν πομπὴν παρὰ τὸ Λεωκόρειον ἀπέκτειναν, τὴν δ᾿ ὅλην ἐλυμήναντο πρᾶξιν.
Already watching Hippias on the acropolis during the Panathenaia (for he happened to be receiving the procession, while Hipparchus was sending it off), and seeing one of those sharing in the deed conversing in a friendly manner with Hippias, and thinking he was informing, wishing to do something before being arrested, they went down, and starting before the others, killed Hipparchus who was arranging the procession by the Leocoreium, but ruined their entire plot.
αὐτῶν δ᾿ ὁ μὲν Ἁρμόδιος εὐθέως ἐτελεύτησεν ὑπὸ τῶν δορ[υ]φόρων, ὁ δ᾿ Ἀριστογείτων ὕστερον συλληφθεὶς καὶ πολὺν χρόνον αἰκισθείς.
Of them, Harmodius was immediately killed by the bodyguards, and Aristogeiton was arrested later and tortured for a long time.
κατηγόρησεν δ᾿ ἐν ταῖς ἀνάγκαις πολλῶν οἵ καὶ τῇ φύσει τῶν ἐπιφανῶν καὶ φίλοι τοῖς τυράννοις ἧσαν.
Under compulsion, he accused many who were both of noble birth by nature and friends to the tyrants.
οὐ γὰρ ἐδύναντο παραχρῆμα λαβεῖν οὐδὲν ἴχνος τῆς πράξεως, ἀλλ᾿ ὁλεγόμενος λόγος ὡς ὁ Ἱππίας ἀποστήσας ἀπὸ τῶν ὅπλων τοὺς πομπεύοντας τας ἐφώρασε τοὺς τὰ ἐγχειρίδια ἔχοντας οὐκ ἀληθής ἐστιν· γὰρ ἔπεμπον τό<τε> μεθ᾿ ὅπλων, ἀλλ᾿ ὕστερον τοῦτο κατεσκεύασεν ὁ δῆμος.
For they could not find any trace of the plot immediately, but the story told that Hippias made the procession-goers stand away from their arms and detected those who had daggers is not true; for they did not march with arms at that time, but the people established this later.
κατηγόρει δὲ τῶν τοῦ τυράννου φίλων, ὡς μὲν οἱ δημοτικοί φασιν, ἐπίτηδες, ἵνα ἀσεβήσαιεν ἅμα καὶ γένοιντο ἀσθενεῖς ἀνελόντες τοῦς ἀναιτίους καὶ φίλους ἑαυτῶν, ὡς δ᾿ ἔνιοι λέγουσιν, οὐχὶ πλαττόγενος ἀλλὰ τοὺς συνειδότας ἐμήνυεν.
He accused the friends of the tyrant, as the democratic party says, on purpose, in order that they might commit an impiety and at the same time become weak by destroying the innocent and their own friends, but as some say, he was not fabricating but informing on those who were in the conspiracy.
καὶ τέλος ὡς οὐκ ἐδύνατο πάντα ποιῶν ἀποθανεῖν, ἐπαγγειλάμενος ὡς ἄλλους μηνύσων πολλοὺς καὶ πείσας αὑτῷ τὸν Ἱππίαν δοῦναι τὴν δεξιὰν πίστεως χάριν, ὡς ἔλαβεν, ὀνειδίσας ὅτι τῷ φονεῖ τἀδελφοῦ τὴν δεξιὰν δέδωκε οὔτω παρώξυνε τὸν Ἱππίαν ὥσθ᾿ ὑπὸ τῆς ὀργῆς οὐ κατέσχεν ἑαυτὸν ἀλλὰ σπασάμενος τὴν μάχαιραν διέφθειρεν αὐτόν.
And finally, when he could not die despite doing everything, promising to inform on many others and persuading Hippias to give him his right hand as a pledge of faith, when he received it, he reproached him for having given his right hand to the murderer of his brother, and so provoked Hippias that in his anger he could not restrain himself, but drawing his dagger, killed him.