y,
but I cannot tell the original of it; his kinsmen, however, sacrifice
to the Carian Jupiter. (Herodotus, v. 66.) O this pleasant and cunning
scoffer of a writer, who thus disgracefully sends Isagoras to the
Carians, as it were to the ravens. As for Aristogiton, he puts him not
forth at the back door, but thrusts him directly out of the gate into
Phoenicia, saying that he had his original from the Gephyraeans, and
that the Gephyraeans were not, as some think, Euboeans or Eretrians, but
Phoenicians, as himself has heard by report. (Ibid, v. 58.) And since
he cannot altogether take from the Lacedaemonians the glory of having
delivered the Athenians from the tyrants, he endeavors to cloud and
disgrace that most honorable act by as foul a passion. For he says, they
presently repented of it, as not having done well, in that they had been
persuaded by spurious and deceitful oracles to drive the tyrants, who
were their allies and had promised to put Athens into their hands, out
of their country, and had restored the city to an ungrateful people. He
adds, that they were about to send for Hippias from Sigeum, and bring
him back to Athens; but that they were opposed by the Corinthians,
Sosicles telling them how much the city of Corinth had suffered under
the tyranny of Cypselus and Periander. (Ibid, v. 90, 91.) And yet there
was no outrage of Periander's more abominable and cruel than his sending
the three hundred children to be emasculated, for the delivering and
saying of whom from that contumely the Corinthians, he says, were angry
and bore a grudge against the Samians, as having put an affront upon
them. With so much repugnance and contradiction is that malice of his
discourse filled, which on every occasion insinuates itself into his
narrations.

After this, relating the action of Sardis, he, as much as in him lies,
diminishes and discredits the matter; being so audacious as to call the
ships which the Athenians sent to the assistance of the Ionians, who had
revolted from the King the beginning of evils, because they endeavored
to deliver so many and so great Grecian cities from the barbarians.
(Ibid, v. 97.) As to the Eretrians, making mention of them only by the
way, he passes over in silence a great, gallant, and memorable action of
theirs. For when all Ionia was in a confusion and uproar, and the King's
fleet drew nigh, they, going forth to meet him, overcame in a sea-fight
the Cyprians in the Pamphylian Sea. Then turn