Erato   

destruction,
All who belong to the race, or the house of the man who is
perjured.
But oath- keeping men leave behind them a flourishing offspring.

Glaucus when he heard these words earnestly besought the god to pardon
his question; but the Pythoness replied that it was as bad to have
tempted the god as it would have been to have done the deed.
Glaucus, however, sent for the Milesian strangers, and gave them
back their money. And now I will tell you, Athenians, what my
purpose has been in recounting to you this history. Glaucus at the
present time has not a single descendant; nor is there any family
known as his- root and branch has he been removed from Sparta. It is a
good thing, therefore, when a pledge has been left with one, not
even in thought to doubt about restoring it."
Thus spake Leotychides; but, as he found that the Athenians
would not hearken to him, he left them and went his way.
The Eginetans had never been punished for the wrongs which, to
pleasure the Thebans, they had committed upon Athens. Now, however,
conceiving that they were themselves wronged, and had a fair ground of
complaint against the Athenians, they instantly prepared to revenge
themselves. As it chanced that the Athenian theoris, which was a
vessel of five banks of oars, lay at Sunium, the Eginetans contrived
an ambush, and made themselves masters of the holy vessel, on board of
which were a number of Athenians of the highest rank, whom they took
and threw into prison.
At this outrage the Athenians no longer delayed, but set to work
to scheme their worst against the Eginetans; and, as there was in
Egina at that time a man of mark, Nicodromus by name, the son of
Cnoethus, who was on ill terms with his countrymen because on a former
occasion they had driven him into banishment, they listened to
overtures from this man, who had heard how determined they were to
do the Eginetans a mischief, and agreed with him that on a certain day
he should be ready to betray the island into their hands, and they
would come with a body of troops to his assistance. And Nicodromus,
some time after, holding to the agreement, made himself master of what
is called the old town.
The Athenians, however, did not come to the day; for their own
fleet was not of force sufficient to engage the Eginetans, and while
they were begging the Corinthians to lend them some ships, the failure
of the enterprise took place. In those days the Corinthians were on
the best of terms with the Athenians; and accordingly they now yielded
to their request, and furnished them with twenty ships; but, as
their law did not allow the ships to be given for nothing, they sold
them to the Athenians for five drachms apiece. As soon then as the
Athenians had obtained this aid, and, by manning also their own ships,
had equipped a fleet of seventy sail, they crossed over to Egina,
but arrived a day later than the time agreed upon.
Meanwhile Nicodromus, when he found the Athenians did not come
to the time appointed, took ship and made his escape from the
island. The Eginetans who accompanied him were settled by the
Athenians at Sunium, whence they were wont to issue forth and
plunder the Eginetans of the island. But this took place at a later
date.
When the wealthier Eginetans had thus obtained the victory over
the common people who had revolted with Nicodromus, they laid hands on
a certain number of them, and led them out to death. But here they
were guilty of a sacrilege, which, notwithstanding all their
efforts, they were never able to atone, being driven from the island
before they had appeased the goddess whom they now provoked. Seven
hundred of the common people had fallen alive into their hands; and
they were all being led out to death, when one of them escaped from
his chains, and flying to the gateway of the temple of Ceres the
Lawgiver, laid hold of the doorhandles, and clung to them. The