Hippias

whereas Hippias and Polus and Gorgias, each of whom most admired and was astonished at himself, you would consider wise and blessed.

formerly from Hippias, later from Cleomenes, and after this, when the Athenians themselves attempted to do the work of Hippias and Isagoras and to establish a tyranny over Greece, were the first to perceive it and most grieved by it, and became leaders of freedom to the rest, and preserved this purpose not only in the case of the Athenians, but also in the case of the Lacedaemonians?

For they say that Hippias of Elis, once, after listening for a long while to Socrates speaking of justice and virtue,

and do not know that Hippias held the government as being the eldest of the sons of Pisistratus, and Hipparchus and Thessalus were his brothers.

He invited Hippias, the commander of the Arcadians in the fortified quarter, to a parley, on condition that if he proposed nothing to meet his wishes, he should restore him safe and sound to the fortress;

For when Pisistratus had died at an advanced age in possession of the tyranny, it was not Hipparchus, as the generality suppose, but Hippias, that was eldest of his sons, and obtained the government.

The opinion of Hippias prevailing, that they should recover the sovereignty, they set out collecting contributions from all the cities that owed them anything.

When Hippias arrived, the Spartans sent for envoys from the rest of their allies and spoke to them as follows:

Perceiving all this, they sent to bring Pisistratus ' son Hippias from Sigeum on the Hellespont, the Pisistratidae 's place of refuge.

For Hippias, having revolted from the Athenians, brought the barbarians into Attica, and, having seized beforehand the opportune places, kept guard, because he had experience of the country.

But that the discourse may not go on too long, while we are ambitious to display the proneness of the Greeks to theft in their words and doctrines, come, let us set before us Hippias the sophist of Elis, downright bearing witness to us, who comes to the same argument upon the matter I have set before me, speaking somewhat thus:

Not what is otherwise — of course not;

Assuredly, Socrates, all this does suggest the work of the gods.

Consequently, Hippias, the gods too accept the identification of just and lawful.

After this it came about that the tyranny was much harsher.

When Pisistratus died, his sons held power, conducting affairs in the same way.

but Hippias, being the elder and by nature a statesman and prudent, was at the head of the government.

in Thrasymachus assailing his boldness and rashness, in Hippias the lightness and emptiness of his mind, and in Protagoras his arrogance and pomposity.

There were these seven girls who were purchased while they were small children by Nicaretê, who was the freedwoman of Charisius the Elean and the wife of his cook Hippias.

Although this also seems to me to be a fine thing, if one might be able to teach people, as Gorgias of Leontini and Prodicus of Ceos and Hippias of Elis are.

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 …

And shall we not mention Hippias, our friend from Elis?

Phaedrus. Oh yes.

(and here he glanced at Hippias);

Then surely we must call Prodicus and Hippias and their followers to come and listen to us

And next did I mark, as Homer says, Hippias of Elis, seated high on a chair in the doorway opposite;

But try to answer me in that way regarding those others—Hippias and Periander:

And who do you think were governed by Hippias, son of Peisistratus, who governed in this city?

Well known is that tyrant-slayer who, caught with his work unfinished and tortured by Hippias to make him reveal his accomplices, named those of the tyrant's friends standing about whose safety he knew was dearest to him;

and Hippias, while he plots treason against the state, is slain.

For the party of Charopus, Thrasonidas, and Argeius were trying to convert the state into a democracy, and the party of Eualcas, Hippias, and Stratolas into an oligarchy.

I know also that you did the same for Hippias, the Elean, from whom Callias got his memory system;