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Often appears with: treason and sedition · torture and interrogation · pisistratus · courts, trials, and pleading · conspiracy and assassination · assassination of brachyllas
Usually: narrative (1) · betrayal (1) · indignation (1)
Brachyllas is assassinated by men from Theban factions; Zeuxippus and others are suspected, examined under torture, and Zeuxippus flees to Athens while Pisistratus is executed.
flight of his slave, withdrew to Athens, where he thought he might live in exile with greater safety. Pisistratus, after being examined several times by torture, was put to death. 29. This murder exasperated the Thebans, and all the Boeotians, to the most rancorous animosity against the Romans, for they considered that Zeuxippus, one of the first men of the nation, had not been party to such a crime without the inst…