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the thought that Hippocleides should now become his son-in-law,because of his dancing and his shamelessness, yet restrained himself,not desiring to break out in anger against him; but when he saw thathe thus gesticulated with his legs, he was no longer able to restrainhimself, but said: "Thou hast danced away thy marriage however,[115]son of Tisander!" and Hippocleides answered and said: "Hippocleidescares not!" 130, and hence comes this saying. Then Cleisthenes causedsilence to be made, and spoke to the company as follows: "Men who arewooers of my daughter, I commend you all, and if it were possible Iwould gratify you all, neither selecting one of you to be preferred,nor rejecting the remainder. Since however it is not possible, as I amdeliberating about one maiden only, to act so as to please all,therefore to those of you who are rejected from this marriage I giveas a gift a talent of silver to each one for the worthy estimation yehad of me, in that ye desired to marry from my house, and for the timeof absence from your homes; and to the son of Alcmaion, Megacles, Ioffer my daughter Agariste in betrothal according to the customs ofthe Athenians." Thereupon Megacles said that he accepted thebetrothal, and so the marriage was determined by Cleisthenes.131. Thus it happened as regards the judgment of the wooers, and thusthe Alcmaionidai got renown over all Hellas. And these having beenmarried, there was born to them that Cleisthenes who established thetribes and the democracy for the Athenians, he being called after theSikyonian Cleisthenes, his mother's father; this son, I say, was bornto Megacles, and also Hippocrates: and of Hippocrates came anotherMegacles and another Agariste, called after Agariste, the daughter ofCleisthenes, who having been married to Xanthippos the son of Ariphronand being with child, saw a vision in her sleep, and it seemed to herthat she had brought forth a lion: then after a few days she bore toXanthippos Pericles.132. After the defeat at Marathon, Miltiades, who even before was wellreputed with the Athenians, came then to be in much higher estimation:and when he asked the Athenians for seventy ships and an army withsupplies of money, not declaring to them against what land he wasintending to make an expedition, but saying that he would enrich themgreatly if they would go with him, for he would lead them to a land ofsuch a kind that they would easily get from it gold in abundance,--thus saying he asked for the ships; and the Athenians, elated by thesewords, delivered them over to him. 133. Then Miltiades, when he hadreceived the army, proceeded to sail to Paris with the pretence thatthe Parians had first attacked Athens by making expedition withtriremes to Marathon in company with the Persian: this was the pretextwhich he put forward, but he had also a grudge against the Parians onaccount of Lysagoras the son of Tisias, who was by race of Paros, for