le to the tyranny
and did not drive him away till he was accused of unnaturally abusing
his wife? Such then are the repugnances of these things; and by his
intermixing the praises of Callias, the son of Phaenippus, amidst the
crimes and suspicions of the Alcmaeonidae, and joining to him his son
Hipponicus, who was (as Herodotus himself says) one of the richest men
in Athens, he confesses that he brought in Callias not for any necessity
of the story, but to ingratiate himself and gain favor with Hipponicus.

Now, whereas all know that the Argives denied not to enter into the
common league of the Grecians, though they thought not fit to follow
and be under the command of the Lacedaemonians, who were their mortal
enemies, and that this was no otherways, our author subjoins a most
malicious cause for it, writing thus: "When they saw they were comprised
by the Greeks, knowing that the Lacedaemonians would not admit them
into a share of the command, they requested it, that they might have a
pretence to lie still." "And of this," he says, "the Argive ambassadors
afterwards put Artaxerxes in mind, when they attended him at Susa, and
the King said, he esteemed no city more his friend than Argos." Then
adding, as his manner is, to cover the matter, he says: "Of these things
I know nothing certainly; but this I know, that all men have faults, and
that the worst things were not done by the Argives; but I must tell such
things as are reported, though I am not bound to believe them all; and
let this be understood of all my narrations. For it is farther said
that the Argives, when they were not able to sustain the war against
the Lacedaemonians, called the Persians into Greece, willing to suffer
anything rather than the present trouble." (Herodotus, vii. 148-152.)
Therefore, as himself reports the Ethiopian to have said of the ointment
and purple, "Deceitful are the beauties, deceitful the garments of
the Persians," (Herodotus, iii. 22.) may not any one say also of
him, Deceitful are the phrases, deceitful the figures of Herodotus's
speeches; as being perplexed, unsound, and full of ambiguities? For
as painters set off and render more eminent the luminous part of their
pictures by adding shadows, so he by his denials extends his calumnies,
and by his dubious speeches makes his suspicions take deeper impression.
If the Argives joined not with the other Greeks, but stood out through
an emulation of the Lacedaemonians command and valor, i