The conspirators were reduced by the failure of food and water.
Cylon and his brother privately escaped.

Of his adherents, some perished by famine, others betook themselves to the altars in the citadel, claiming, as suppliants, the right of sanctuary.

The guards of the magistrates, seeing the suppliants about to expire from exhaustion, led them from the altar and put them to death.

But some of the number were not so scrupulously slaughtered--massacred around the altars of the furies.

The horror excited by a sacrilege so atrocious, may easily be conceived by those remembering the humane and reverent superstition of the Greeks:--the indifference of the people to the contest was changed at once into detestation of the victors.