Erato   

From Italy there came Smindyrides, the son of Hippocrates, a
native of Sybaris- which city about that time was at the very height
of its prosperity. He was a man who in luxuriousness of living
exceeded all other persons. Likewise there came Damasus, the son of
Amyris, surnamed the Wise, a native of Siris. These two were the
only suitors from Italy. From the Ionian Gulf appeared Amphimnestus,
the son of Epistrophus, an Epidamnian; from Aetolia, Males, the
brother of that Titormus who excelled all the Greeks in strength,
and who wishing to avoid his fellow-men, withdrew himself into the
remotest parts of the Aetolian territory. From the Peloponnese came
several- Leocedes, son of that Pheidon, king of the Argives, who
established weights and measures throughout the Peloponnese, and was
the most insolent of all the Grecians- the same who drove out the
Elean directors of the Games, and himself presided over the contests
at Olympia- Leocedes, I say, appeared, this Pheidon's son; and
likewise Amiantus, son of Lycurgus, an Arcadian of the city of
Trapezus; Laphanes, an Azenian of Paeus, whose father, Euphorion, as
the story goes in Arcadia, entertained the Dioscuri at his
residence, and thenceforth kept open house for all comers; and lastly,
Onomastus, the son of Agaeus, a native of Elis. These four came from
the Peloponnese. From Athens there arrived Megacles, the son of that
Alcmaeon who visited Croesus, and Tisander's son, Hippoclides, the
wealthiest and handsomest of the Athenians. There was likewise one
Euboean, Lysanias, who came from Eretria, then a flourishing city.
From Thessaly came Diactorides, a Cranonian, of the race of the
Scopadae; and Alcon arrived from the Molossians. This was the list
of the suitors.
Now when they were all come, and the day appointed had arrived,
Clisthenes first of all inquired of each concerning his country and
his family; after which he kept them with him a year, and made trial
of their manly bearing, their temper, their accomplishments, and their
disposition, sometimes drawing them apart for converse, sometimes
bringing them all together. Such as were still youths he took with him
from time to time to the gymnasia; but the greatest trial of all was
at the banquettable. During the whole period of their stay he lived
with them as I have said; and, further, from first to last he
entertained them sumptuously. Somehow or other the suitors who came
from Athens pleased him the best of all; and of these Hippoclides,
Tisander's son, was specially in favour, partly on account of his
manly bearing, and partly also because his ancestors were of kin to
the Corinthian Cypselids.
When at length the day arrived which had been fixed for the
espousals, and Clisthenes had to speak out and declare his choice,
he first of all made a sacrifice of a hundred oxen, and held a
banquet, whereat he entertained all the suitors and the whole people
of Sicyon. After the feast was ended, the suitors vied with each other
in music and in speaking on a given subject. Presently, as the
drinking advanced, Hippoclides, who quite dumbfoundered the rest,
called aloud to the flute-player, and bade him strike up a dance;
which the man did, and Hippoclides danced to it. And he fancied that
he was dancing excellently well; but Clisthenes, who was observing
him, began to misdoubt the whole business. Then Hippoclides, after a
pause, told an attendant to bring in a table; and when it was brought,
he mounted upon it and danced first of all some Laconian figures, then
some Attic ones; after which he stood on his head upon the table,
and began to toss his legs about. Clisthenes, notwithstanding that
he now loathed Hippoclides for a son-in-law, by reason of his
dancing and his shamelessness, still, as he wished to avoid an
outbreak, had restrained himself during the first and likewise
during the second dance; when, however, he saw him tossing his legs in
the air, he could no longer contain himself, but cried out, "Son of
Tisander, thou hast danced thy wife away!" "What does Hippoclides
care?" was the other's answer. And hence the proverb arose.
Then Clisthenes commanded silence, and spake thus before the