Pisistratids
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the Pisistratids
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Stromata
The Pisistratids, the Athenian ruling family under whom Onomacritus was active and whose tyranny Pisistratus established with prophetic counsel.
And by the counsel of the Athenian Amphilytus, Pisistratus too established his tyranny, when the man had pointed out the moment for the attack.
Indeed, Onomacritus the Athenian, whose are said to be the poems ascribed to Orpheus, is found in the time of the rule of the Pisistratids, about the fiftieth Olympiad.
The Histories
The exiled family of the former Athenian tyrants, who accompany the Persians and propose surrender terms to the besieged defenders of the acropolis.
When the Pisistratids proposed terms of surrender, they would not listen but contrived defenses such as rolling down boulders onto the barbarians when they came near the gates.