Erato   

assembled company:-
"Suitors of my daughter, well pleased am I with you all; and right
willingly, if it were possible, would I content you all, and not by
making choice of one appear to put a slight upon the rest. But as it
is out of my power, seeing that I have but one daughter, to grant to
all their wishes, I will present to each of you whom I must needs
dismiss a talent of silver, for the honour that you have done me in
seeking to ally yourselves with my house, and for your long absence
from your homes. But my daughter, Agarista, I betroth to Megacles, the
son of Alcmaeon, to be his wife, according to the usage and wont of
Athens."
Then Megacles expressed his readiness; and Clisthenes had the
marriage solemnised.
Thus ended the affair of the suitors; and thus the Alcmaeonidae
came to be famous throughout the whole of Greece. The issue of this
marriage was the Clisthenes named after his grandfather the Sicyonian-
who made the tribes at Athens, and set up the popular government.
Megacles had likewise another son, called Hippocrates, whose
children were a Megacles and an Agarista, the latter named after
Agarista the daughter of Clisthenes. She married Xanthippus, the son
of Ariphron; and when she was with child by him had a dream, wherein
she fancied that she was delivered of a lion; after which, within a
few days, she bore Xanthippus a son, to wit, Pericles.
After the blow struck at Marathon, Miltiades, who was previously
held in high esteem by his countrymen, increased yet more in
influence. Hence, when he told them that he wanted a fleet of
seventy ships, with an armed force, and money, without informing
them what country he was going to attack, but only promising to enrich
them if they would accompany him, seeing that it was a right wealthy
land, where they might easily get as much gold as they cared to
have- when he told them this, they were quite carried away, and gave
him the whole armament which he required.
So Miltiades, having got the armament, sailed against Paros,
with the object, as he alleged, of punishing the Parians for having
gone to war with Athens, inasmuch as a trireme of theirs had come with
the Persian fleet to Marathon. This, however, was a mere pretence; the
truth was, that Miltiades owed the Parians a grudge, because
Lysagoras, the son of Tisias, who was a Parian by birth, had told
tales against him to Hydarnes the Persian. Arrived before the place
against which his expedition was designed, he drove the Parians within
their walls, and forthwith laid siege to the city. At the same time he
sent a herald to the inhabitants, and required of them a hundred
talents, threatening that, if they refused, he would press the
siege, and never give it over till the town was taken. But the
Parians, without giving his demand a thought, proceeded to use every
means that they could devise for the defence of their city, and even
invented new plans for the purpose, one of which was, by working at
night, to raise such parts of the wall as were likely to be carried by
assault to double their former height.
Thus far all the Greeks agree in their accounts of this
business; what follows is related upon the testimony of the Parians
only. Miltiades had come to his wit's end, when one of the
prisoners, a woman named Timo, who was by birth a Parian, and had held
the office of under-priestess in the temple of the infernal goddesses,
came and conferred with him. This woman, they say, being introduced
into the presence of Miltiades, advised him, if he set great store
by the capture of the place, to do something which she could suggest
to him. When therefore she had told him what it was she meant, he
betook himself to the hill which lies in front of the city, and
there leapt the fence enclosing the precinct of Ceres Thesmophorus,
since he was not able to open the door. After leaping into the place
he went straight to the sanctuary, intending to do something within
it- either to remove some of the holy things which it was not lawful
to stir, or to perform some act or other, I cannot say what- and had