aiding or avenging their despotic lord, cities bestow large honours on
the slayer of a tyrant; ay, and in lieu of excommunicating the
tyrannicide from sacred shrines,[10] as is the case with murderers of
private citizens, they set up statues of the doers of such deeds[11]
in temples.

[9] "Matters are once more reversed precisely," "it is all 'topsy-
turvy.'"

[10] "And sacrifices." Cf. Dem. "c. Lept." 137, {en toinun tois peri
touton nomois o Drakon . . . katharon diorisen einai}. "Now in the
laws upon this subject, Draco, although he strove to make it
fearful and dreadful for a man to slay another, and ordained that
the homicide should be excluded from lustrations, cups, and drink-
offerings, from the temples and the market-place, specifying
everything by which he thought most effectually to restrain people
from such a practice, still did not abolish the rule of justice,
but laid down the cases in which it should be lawful to kill, and
declared that the killer under such circumstances should be deemed
pure" (C. R. Kennedy).

[11] e.g. Harmodius and Aristogeiton. See Dem. loc. cit. 138: "The
same rewards that you gave to Harmodius and Aristogiton,"
concerning whom Simonides himself wrote a votive couplet:

{'E meg' 'Athenaioisi phoos geneth' enik' 'Aristogeiton
'Ipparkhon kteine kai 'Armodios.}

But if you imagine that the tyrant, because he has more possessions
than the private person, does for that reason derive greater pleasure