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. second messenger was despatched to Melissa, who
low vouchsafed to say where the thing required might
>e found. Such, oh men of Sparta, is a tyrannical
government, and such its effects. Much, therefore,
vere we Corinthians astonished, when we learned
hat you had sent for Hippias; but the declaration of
'our sentiments surprises us still more. We adjure
'ou therefore, in the names of the divinities of Greece,
lot to establish tyranny in our cities. But if you are
letermined in your purpose, and are resolved in oppo-
ition to what is just, to restore Hippias, be assured
hat the Corinthians will not second you."

XCIII. Sosicles, the deputy of the Corinthians,
laving delivered his sentiments, was answered by
hippias. He having adjured the same divinities, de­
clared, that the Corinthians would most of all have
iccasion to regret the Pisistratidse, when the destined
iour should arrive, and they should groan under the
ippression of the Athenians. Hippias spoke with the
rreater confidence, because he was best acquainted
vith the declarations of the oracles. The rest of the
confederates, who had hitherto been silent, hearing
:he generous sentiments of Sosicles, declared them­
selves the friends of freedom, and favourers of the
ipinions of the Corinthians. They then conjured the
Lacedaemonians to introduce no innovations which
night affect the liberties of a Grecian city.

XCIV. When Hippias departed from Sparta, Amyn-
as the Macedonian prince offered him for a residence,
\nthemos, as did the Thessalians, Ioclos; but he
vould accept of neither, and returned to Sigeum,
vhich Pisistratus had taken by force from the people
if Mitylene. He had appointed Hcgesistratus, his
latural son by a woman of Argos, governor of the
ilace, who did not retain his situation without much
ind violent contest. The people of Mitylene and of
Vthens issuing, the one from the city of Achillea, the
ither from Sigeum, were long engaged in hostilities.
They of Mitylene insisted on the restoration of what
tad been violently taken from them ; but it was an-
wered, that the iEolians had no stronger claims upon
he territories of Troy, than the Athenians them-

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