Hippias
Americannoun
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The Greek tyrant Hippias lunged at Piper, his dagger raised, but Piper blasted him point-blank in the chest with a lovely pot roast.
From "Blood of Olympus" by Rick Riordan
For this Hippias was clearly a man writing with a deliberate policy.
From Problems in Greek history by John Pentland Mahaffy
Plutarch, moreover, in the opening of his Life of Numa, tells us plainly that the list was the manufacture of Hippias, and based on no trustworthy evidence.
From Rambles and Studies in Greece by J. P. Mahaffy
Now, as Marathon was the spot in Attica best adapted for cavalry, and nearest to Eretria, Hippias, son of Pisistratus, conducted them there.
From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe
Book V. Terpsichore.—The political progress of Lacedæmon, Athens and Corinth—view of their relative resources during the time of Darius—expulsion of Hippias from Athens.
From Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life by T. L. (Thomas Louis) Haines
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