whose name is always associated with that of his friend Aristogeiton, was regarded by the Athenians, after the expulsion of the Pisistratids, as one of their noblest patriots. The circumstances, however, which led them to the murder of Hipparchus were entirely of a personal, and not of a political nature; and when divested of all the romance attached to them by the song and ballad writers of Greece, prove that the friends are entitled to rank no higher than common assassins. The real relations subsisting between them are fully described by Thucydides, Book vi., chap. 54.