Assassination of Hipparchus

For instance, the mass of the Athenians think that Hipparchus was tyrant when he was slain by Harmodius and Aristogiton;

In this manner both the original conspiracy was entered into by Harmodius and Aristogiton for a love offence, and their rash venture attempted through their alarm at the moment.

and so they rushed straightway within the gates, and meeting with Hipparchus by the Leocorium, at once fell on him in a reckless manner, under the influence of the most vehement passion, inspired by love in the one case, and by insult in the other, and smote him, and slew him.

and seeing one of those who shared in the deed conversing in a friendly way with Hippias, and supposing he was giving information, and wishing to do something before they were arrested, they went down, and starting before the others, killed Hipparchus while he was marshalling the procession near the Leocorion, and ruined the whole enterprise.

whence it came about that Harmodius and Aristogeiton, provoked, carried out their deed, with many sharing in it.

He accused the friends of the tyrant—as the popular party say, on purpose, that they might at once commit impiety and become weak, by destroying men who were innocent and their own friends;

First Hipparchus, son of Pisistratus and brother of the tyrant Hippias, had been slain by Aristogiton and Harmodius, men of Gephyraean descent.

As soon as it was day, he imparted this to the interpreters of dreams, and presently putting the vision from his mind, he led the procession in which he met his death.

Now this was the vision which Hipparchus saw in a dream:

I therefore should never dare, I am sure, to deceive you, who are my friend, or disobey the great Hipparchus, after whose death the Athenians were for three years under the despotic rule of his brother Hippias, and you might have heard anyone of the earlier period say that it was only in these years that there was despotism in Athens, and that at all other times the Athenians lived very much as in …