His sons were already adults.

Partly from a desire not to increase his family, partly from some superstitious disinclination to the blood of the Alcmaeonidae, which the massacre of Cylon still stigmatized with contamination, Pisistratus conducted himself towards the fair Coesyra with a chastity either unwelcome to her affection, or afflicting to her pride.

The unwedded wife communicated the mortifying secret to her mother, from whose lips it soon travelled to the father.

He did not view the purity of Pisistratus with charitable eyes.

He thought it an affront to his own person that that of his daughter should be so tranquilly regarded.