He assumed no title--no attribute of sovereignty.

He was accused of murder, and he humbly appeared before the tribunal of the Areopagus--a proof not more of the moderation of the usurper than of the influence of public opinion.

He enforced the laws of Solon, and compelled the unruly tempers of his faction to subscribe to their wholesome rigour.

The one revolution did not, therefore, supplant, it confirmed, the other.
"By these means," says Herodotus, "Pisistratus mastered Athens, and yet his situation was far from secure." [230] VII.

Although the heads of the more moderate party, under Megacles, had been expelled from Athens, yet the faction, equally powerful and equally hostile, headed by Lycurgus, and embraced by the bulk of the nobles, still remained.