The histories of Herodotus;

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dae, when they with other Athenian exiles did not succeed in
their attempt to effect their return by force, but were signally
defeated in their endeavours to reinstate themselves and liberate
Athens, having fortified Lipsydrium, which is above
Paeonia—thereupon the Alcmaeonidae, practising every scheme
against the Pisistratidae, contracted with the Amphictyons to
build the temple which is now at Delphi, but then did not
exist ; and as they were wealthy, and originally men of distinction,
they constructed the temple in a more beautiful manner
than the plan required, both in other respects, and also,
though it was agreed they should make it of porine stone, they
built its front of Parian marble. Accordingly, as the Athenians
state, these men, while staying at Delphi, prevailed on
the Pythian by money, when any Spartans should come thither
to consult the oracle, either on their own account or that of
the public, to propose to them to liberate Athens from servitude.
The Lacedaemonians, when the same warning was always
given them, sent Anchimolius, son of Aster, a citizen
of distinction, with an army to expel the Pisistratidae from
Athens, though they were particularly united to them by the
ties of friendship, for they considered their duty to the god
more obligatory than their duty to men. These forces they
sent by sea in ships, and he having touched at Phalerum, dis-
embarked his army : but the Pisistratidae, having had notice
of this beforehand, called in assistance from Thessaly, for they
had entered into an alliance with them. In accordance with
their request, the Thessalians with one consent despatched
a thousand horse to their assistance, and their king Cineas, a
native of Conium. When the Pisistratidae had these auxiliaries,
they had recourse to the following plan : Having cleared
the plains of the Phalereans, and made the country practicable
for cavalry, they sent the cavalry against the enemy's camp;
and it having fallen on, killed many of the Lacedaemonians,
and among them Anchimolius, and the survivors they drove
to their ships. The first expedition from Lacedaemon thus got
off ; and the tomb of Anchimolius is at Alopecae of Attica,
near the Temple of Hercules in Cynosarges. Afterward the
Lacedaemonians, having fitted out a larger armament, sent it
from Sparta, having appointed King Cleomenes, son of Anaxandrides,
commander in chief; they did not, however, send it
again by sea, but by land. On their entrance into the Athenian
territory the Thessalian cavalry first engaged with them,
and was soon defeated, and more than forty of their number
fell : the survivors immediately departed straight for Thessaly.
Cleomenes having reached the city, accompanied by