The histories of Herodotus;

67-69] CLISTHENES OF SICYON 297
desirous of expelling him from the country, because he was
an Argive. Going, therefore, to Delphi, he consulted the oracle
whether he should expel Adrastus ; and the Pythian answered
him, saying, " That Adrastus indeed was king of the
Sicyonians, but Clisthenes deserved to be stoned." Finding
the god would not permit this, Clisthenes returned home and
considered of a contrivance by which Adrastus might depart
of himself. When he thought he had found out a way, he sent
to Thebes of Boeotia, and said that he wished to introduce
Melanippus, son of Astacus ; and the Thebans assented. Clisthenes,
therefore, having introduced Melanippus, appointed
him a precinct in the very prytaneum, and placed it there in
the strongest position. But Clisthenes introduced Melanippus,
for it is necessary to mention this motive, because he was
the greatest enemy of Adrastus, having killed his brother
Mecistes and his son-in-law Tydeus. When he had appointed
him this precinct, he took away the sacrifices and festivals of
Adrastus, and gave them to Melanippus. But the Sicyonians
had been accustomed to honour Adrastus very highly; for
the country itself belonged to Polybus, and Polybus dying
without a son, gave the sovereignty to Adrastus, the son of
his daughter. The Sicyonians paid other honours to Adrastus,
and, moreover, celebrated his misfortune by tragic choruses;
not honouring Bacchus, but Adrastus, to that time.
But Clisthenes transferred these dances to the worship of Bacchus,
and the rest of the ceremonies to Melanippus. This he
did with reference to Adrastus. He also changed the names
of the Dorian tribes, in order that the Sicyonians and Argives
might not have the same. And in this he very much ridiculed
the Sicyonians. For, changing their names into names derived
from a swine and an ass, he added only the terminations,
except in the case of his own tribe ; to this he gave a name
significant of his own sovereignty, for they were called Archelai
; but others Hyatae, some Oneatae, and others Choereatas.
The Sicyonians adopted these names for their tribes, both
during the reign of Clisthenes, and after his death, during
sixty years ; after that, however, by common consent they
changed them into Hylleans, Pamphylians, and Dymanatse;
and they added a fourth, after iEgialeus, son of Adrastus, giving
them the name of ^gialeans.
Now the Sicyonian Clisthenes had done these things : and
the Athenian Clisthenes, who was son to the daughter of this
Sicyonian, and had his name from him, from contempt for the
Ionians, as it appears to me, that the Athenians might not
have the same tribes as the Ionians, imitated his namesake