The Spartans abandoned their design, and Hippias, discomfited but not dispirited, quitted the Lacedaemonian capital.

Some of the chiefs of Thessaly, as well as the prince of Macedon, offered him an honourable retreat in their dominions.

But it was not an asylum, it was an ally, that the unyielding ambition of Hippias desired to secure.

He regained Sigeum, and thence, departing to Sardis, sought the assistance of the satrap, Artaphernes.

He who in prosperity was the tyrant, became, in adversity, the traitor of his country; and the son of Pisistratus exerted every effort of his hereditary talent of persuasion to induce the satrap not so much to restore the usurper as to reduce the Athenian republic to the Persian yoke [262].