After his death, his sons Hipparchus and Hippias succeeded him in the tyranny.
The Athenians, at this time, had recently expelled Hippias the son of Pisistratus, the last of their tyrants.
In the prize-fight of life, my dear Austin, our uncle Hippias has been unfairly hit below the belt.
That city in 510 had expelled Hippias, the tyrant son of Peisistratus, who appealed to Artaphernes for aid.
Homer (says Hippias) considers veracious men, and mendacious men, to be not merely different, but opposite: and I agree with him.
