§19XIX. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα συνέβαινεν πολλῷ τραχυτέραν εἷναι τὴν τυραννίδα· καὶ γὰρ διὰ τὸ τιμωρεῖν τἀδελφῷ καὶ διὰ τὸ πολλοὺς ἀνῃρηκεναι καὶ ἐκβεβληκέναι πᾶσιν ἧν ἄπιστος καὶ πικρός.
After these things, it happened that the tyranny became much harsher; for both because of avenging his brother and because of having put many to death and having expelled them, he was untrustworthy and bitter to all.
ἔτει δὲ τετάρτῳ μάλιστα μετὰ τὸν Ἱππάρχου θάντον, ἐπεὶ κακῶς εἷχεν τὰ ἐν τῷ ἄστει, τὴν Μουνιχίαν ἐπεχείρησε τειχίζειν, ὡς ἐκεῖ μεθιδρυσόμενος· ἐν τούτοις δ᾿ ὤν ἐξέπεσεν ὑπὸ Κλεομένους τοῦ Λακεδαιμονίων βασιλέως, χρησμῶν γιγνομένων ἀεὶτίαν.
In about the fourth year after the death of Hipparchus, since affairs in the city were in a bad state, he attempted to fortify Munychia, intending to resettle there; but while he was engaged in these things, he was expelled by Cleomenes, the king of the Lacedaemonians, because oracle-givings were constantly taking place.
οἱ φυγάδες, ὧν οἱ Ἀλκμεωνίδαι προειστήκεσαν, αὔτοὶ μὲν δι᾿ αὑτῶν οὐκ ἐδύναντο ποιήσασθαι τὴν κάθοδον, ἀλλ' αἰεὶ προσέπταιον· | ἒν τε γὰρ τοῖς ἂλλοις οἶς ἒπραττον διεσφάλλοντο καὶ τειχίσαντες ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ Λειψύδριον τὸ ὑπὲρ Πὰρνηθος, εἰς ὃ συνεξῆλθόν τινες τῶν ἐκ τοῦ ἂστεως, ἐξεπολιορκήθησαν ὑπὸ τῶν τυράννων, ὃθεν ὓστερον μετὰ ταύτην τὴν συμφορὰν ᾖδον ἐν τοῖς σχολιοῖς αἰε. αἰαῖ Λειψύδριον προδωσέταιρον,
οἳους ἂνδρας ἀπώλεσας μάχεσθαι
ἀγαθούς τε καὶ εὐπατρίσας,
οἳ τότ᾿ ἒδειξαν οἳων πατέπων ἒσαν.
The exiles, of whom the Alcmeonidae were leaders, were not able by themselves to effect their return, but always met with failure; for not only were they frustrated in the other things they did, but having fortified Leipsydrion in the country above Parnes, where some of those from the city joined them in going out, they were besieged and taken by the tyrants; whence later after this disaster they always sang in their scoliois: / Alas, Leipsydrion, betrayer of friends, / what sort of men did you destroy, / good at fighting and of noble birth, / who then showed of what fathers they were.
ἀποτυγχάνοντες οὖν ἐν ἓπασι τοῖς ἂλλοις ἐμισθώσαντο τὸν ἐν Δελφοῖς νεὼν οἰκοδομεῖν, ὃθεν εὐπόρησαν χπημάτων πρὸς τὴν τῶν Λακώνων βοήδειαν.
Failing, therefore, in all other things, they contracted to build the temple in Delphi, whence they became well supplied with money for the assistance of the Laconians.
ἡ δὲ Πυθία προέφερεν αἰεὶ τοῖς Λακεδαιμονίοις χρηστηριαζομένοις ἐλευδεροῦν τὰς᾿ Αθήνας εἰς τοῦθ᾿ προύτρεψε Σπαρτιάτας, κκίπερ ὂντων ξένων αὐτοῖς τῶν Πεισιστρατιδῶν· συνεβάλλετο δὲ οὐκ ἐλάττω μοῖραν τῆς όρμῆς τοῖς Λάκωσιν ἡ πρὸς τοὺς Ἀργείους τοῖς Πεισιστρατίδαις ὑπάρχουσα φιλία.
And the Pythia always enjoined upon the Lacedaemonians when they consulted the oracle to liberate Athens; to this she urged the Spartans, although the Peisistratidae were guest-friends to them; and not least a share of the impulse was contributed to the Laconians by the friendship existing between the Peisistratidae and the Argives.
τὸ μὲν πρῶτον Ἀγχίμολον ἀπέστειλαν κατὰ θάλατταν ἒχοντα στρατιὰν.
First indeed they sent Anchimolus by sea with an army.
ἡττηδέντος δ᾿ αὐτοῦ καὶ τελευτήσαντος διὰ τὸ Κινέαν βοηδῆσαι τὸν Θετταλὸν ἒχοντα χιλίους ἱππεῖς, προσοργισθέντες τῷ γενομένῳ Κλεομένην ἐξέπεμψαν τὸν βασιλέα στόλον ἒχοντα μείζω κατὰ γῆν, ὃς ἐπεὶ τοὺς τῶν Θετταλῶν ἱππεῖς ἐνίκησεν κωλύοντας αὐτὸν εἰς τὴν Ἀττικὴν παριέναι, κατακλείσας τὸν Ἰππίαν εἰς τὸ καλούμενον Πελαργικὸν τεῖχος ἐπολισορκει μετὰ τῶν Ἀθηναίων.
But when he was defeated and died because Cineas the Thessalian brought help with a thousand horsemen, being further angered by what had happened, they sent out Cleomenes the king with a larger force by land, who, when he defeated the Thessalian cavalry who were preventing him from passing into Attica, having shut up Hippias in the so-called Pelargikon wall, besieged him with the Athenians.
προσκαθημένου δ᾿ αὐτοῦ σονέπεσεν ὑπεξόντας ἁλῶναι τοὺς τῶν Πεισισρατιδῶν υἱεῖς· ὦν ληφθέντων ὁμολογίαν ἐπὶ τῇ τῶν παίδων σωτηρία ποιησάμενοι καὶ τὰ ἑαυτῶν ἐν πένθ᾿ ἠμέραις ἐκκομισάμενοι παρέδωκαν τὴν ἀρόπολιν τοῖς Ἀθηναίοις ἐπὶ Ἁρπακτίδου ἂρχοντος, κατασχόντες τὴν τυραννίδα μετὰ τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς τελευτὴν ἒτη μάλιστα ἐπτακαίδεκα, τὰ δὲ σύμπαντα σὺν οἶς ὁ πατὴρ ἦρξεν ἐνὸς δεῖ πεντηκοντα.
While he was sitting before it, it happened that the sons of the Peisistratidae were captured as they were secretly leaving; when these were taken, having made an agreement for the safety of their children, and having carried away their property within five days, they surrendered the acropolis to the Athenians during the archonship of Harpaktides, having held the tyranny for about seventeen years after the death of their father, and the whole period with that which their father ruled lacks one of fifty years.
§20XX. καταλυθείσης δὲ τῆς τυραννίσος ἐστασίαζον πρὸς ἀλλήλους Ἰσα. γόρας ὁ Τεισάνδρου φίλος ὢν τῶν τυράννων καὶ Κλεισθένης τοῦ γένους ὢν τῶν Ἀλκμεωνιδῶν.
When the tyranny was dissolved, there arose a factional dispute against each other between Isa- goras, the son of Teisandros, who was a friend of the tyrants, and Cleisthenes, who was of the family of the Alcmeonidae.
ἡττώμενος δὲ ταῖς ἑταιρείαις ὁ Κλεισθένης προσηγάγετο τὸν δῆμον, ἀποδιδοὺς τῷ πλήθει τὴν πολιτείαν.
Being defeated in the political associations, Cleisthenes won over the people, giving the constitution to the multitude.
ὁ δὲ Ἰσαλόρας ἐπιλειπόμενος τῇ δυνάμει πάλιν επικαλεσάμενος τὸν Κλεομένην, ὂντα ἑαυτῷ ξένον, συνέπεισεν ἐλαύνειν τὸ ἂγος, διὰ τὸ τοὺς Ἀλκμεωνίσας δοκεῖν εἶναι τῶν ἐναγῶν.
Isagoras, falling behind in power, again called upon Cleomenes, who was his guest-friend, and persuaded him to drive out the pollution, because the Alcmeonidae were thought to be among the accursed.
ὑπεξελθόντος δὲ τοῦ Κλεισθένους με᾿ ὀλίγων ἠγηλάτει τῶν Ἀθηναίων ἐπτακοσίας οἰκίας· ταῦτα δὲ διαπραξάμενος τὴν μὲν βουλὴν ἐπειρᾶτο καταλύειν, Ἰσαγόραν δὲ καὶ τριακοσίους τῶν φίλων μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ κυρίους κκθιστάναι τῆς πόλεως.
When Cleisthenes had secretly departed with a few, Cleomenes banished seven hundred households of the Athenians; having accomplished these things, he attempted to dissolve the Council, and to establish Isagoras and three hundred of his friends with him as masters of the city.
τῆς δὲ βουλὴς ἀντιστάσης καὶ συναθροισθέντος τοῦ πλήθους οἱ μὲν περὶ τὸν Κλεομένην καὶ Ἰσαγόραν κατέφογον εἰς τὴν ἀκρόπολιν, ὁ δὲ δῆμος δύο μὲν ἡμέρας προσκαθεζόμενος ἐπολιόρκει, τῇ δὲ τρίτῃ Κλεομένην μὲν καὶ τοὺς μετ᾿ αὐτοῦ πάντας ἀφεῖσαν ὑποσπόνδους, Κλεισθένη δὲ καὶ τοὺς ἂλλους φυλάδας μετεπέμψαντο.
But when the Council resisted and the multitude gathered, those around Cleomenes and Isagoras fled to the acropolis, and the people, sitting before it, besieged them for two days, and on the third day they let Cleomenes and those with him all go under a truce, and summoned back Cleisthenes and the other exiles.
κατασχόντος δὲ τοῦ δήμου τὰ πράγματα Κλεισθένης ἡγεμὼν ἦν καὶ τοῦ δήμου προστάτης.
When the people obtained control of affairs, Cleisthenes was leader and champion of the people.
αἰτιώτατοι γὰρ σχεδόν ἐγένοντο τῆς ἐκβολῆς τῶν τυράννων οἱ Ἀλκμεωνίδαι καὶ στασιάζοντες τὰ πολλὰ διετέλεσαν.
For the Alcmeonidae were almost the chief causes of the expulsion of the tyrants, and they continued in opposition for the most part.
ἔτι δὲ πρότερον τῶν Ἀλκμεωνιδῶν Κήδων ἐπέθετο τοῖς τυράννοις, διὸ καὶ ᾖδον καὶ κἰς τοῦτον ἐν τοῖς σκολιοῖς· ἒγχει καὶ Κήδωνι, διάκονε, μηδ᾿ ἐπιλήθου,
εἰ χρὴ τοῖς ἀγαθοῖς ἀνδράσιν οἰνοχοεῖν.
Even before the Alcmeonidae, Cedon attacked the tyrants, wherefore they also sang of him in the scolia: / Pour also for Cedon, server, and do not forget, / if indeed one must pour wine for good men.