end you all, and if it were possible I would gratify
you all, neither selecting one of you to be preferred, nor rejecting the
remainder. Since however it is not possible, as I am deliberating about
one maiden only, to act so as to please all, therefore to those of you
who are rejected from this marriage I give as a gift a talent of silver
to each one for the worthy estimation ye had of me, in that ye desired
to marry from my house, and for the time of absence from your homes;
and to the son of Alcmaion, Megacles, I offer my daughter Agariste in
betrothal according to the customs of the Athenians." Thereupon Megacles
said that he accepted the betrothal, and so the marriage was determined
by Cleisthenes.

131. Thus it happened as regards the judgment of the wooers, and thus
the Alcmaionidai got renown over all Hellas. And these having been
married, there was born to them that Cleisthenes who established the
tribes and the democracy for the Athenians, he being called after the
Sikyonian Cleisthenes, his mother's father; this son, I say, was born to
Megacles, and also Hippocrates: and of Hippocrates came another
Megacles and another Agariste, called after Agariste, the daughter of
Cleisthenes, who having been married to Xanthippos the son of Ariphron
and being with child, saw a vision in her sleep, and it seemed to her
that she had brought forth a lion: then after a few days she bore to
Xanthippos Pericles.

132. After the defeat at Marathon, Miltiades, who even before was well
reputed with the Athenians, came then to be in much higher estimation:
and when he asked the Athenians for seventy ships and an army with
supplies of money, not declaring to them against what land he was
intending to make an expedition, but saying that he would enrich them
greatly if they would go with him, for he would lead them to a land of
such a kind that they would easily get from it gold in abundance,--thus
saying he asked for the ships; and the Athenians, elated by these words,
delivered them over to him..

133. Then Miltiades, when he had received the army, proceeded to sail
to Paris with the pretence that the Parians had first attacked Athens by
making expedition with triremes to Marathon in company with the Persian:
this was the pretext which he put forward, but he had also a grudge
against the Parians on account of Lysagoras the son of Tisias, who was
by race of Paros, for having accused him to Hydarnes the Persian. So
when Miltiades ha