CHAPTER 93

When Sosicles, the deputy from Corinth, had thus spoken, Hippias replied, and, invoking the same gods, he said - "Of a surety the Corinthians will, beyond all others, regret the Pisistratidae, when the fated days come for them to be distressed by the Athenians." Hippias spoke thus because he knew the prophecies better than any man living. But the rest of the allies, who till Sosicles spoke had remained quiet, when they heard him utter his thoughts thus boldly, all together broke silence, and declared themselves of the same mind; and withal, they conjured the Lacedaemonians "not to revolutionise a Grecian city." And in this way the enterprise came to nought.