46 ARIS1 OPHANES.

something better for you than that. Is it not a fact
that you, who fought the Persians at Marathon and
conquered them so gloriously, have been sitting here
ever since with nothing between you and the hard
stone? Look at this cushion that I. have stitched
together for you. Get up, my dear sir; and now will
you sit down again? Never again will you have to
rub what you made so sore at Salamis.”

D. “My dear sir, who are you? One of the fam-
ily of Harmodius I fancy. I never saw a more
truly patriotic thing.”

BL. “Well, that is a PED ELY. little thing to make
so much of.”

S..s. “I dare say; but you have trapped him with
baits five times smaller.”

B. “Now, Ill wager my life that there never was
a man who loved Demos more than J.”

S.-s. “You love him! and you have let him live
now for eight years in tubs? and crannies and turrets
on the wall! Ah! you have shut him in, like bees in
a hive, and taken his honey, too. And when the am-
bassadors brought proposals for peace, — and a very
good peace, too, — you kicked them out.”

1Harmodius and Aristogeiton, two Athenian nobles, assassinated
Hipparchus, who was one of the sons of Peisistratus, and, along with
his brother Hippias, had succeeded to his despotic power. Though ©
the assassins seem to have had no other motive than to avenge a pri-
vate wrong, their memory was always honoured in Athens, as if they
had acted from the purest patriotism.

2The poor Athenians during the siege were driven to live in any
place where they could find shelter,