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HARMODIUS

Volume 8 · 42 words · 1797 Edition

a friend of Aristogiton, who delivered his country from the tyranny of the Pisistratidae. (See Aristogiton.) The Athenians, to reward the patriotism of these illustrious citizens, made a law that no one should ever after bear the name of Aristogiton and Harmodius.