Note 971 — Chapter VII · Corinth

“Periander first changed the government (πρῶτος μετέστησε τὴν ἀρχήν),” Heraclides, F.H.G. II. p. 213; “Periander, the son of Cypselus king of Corinth, received the kingdom by inheritance from his father and out of savagery and violence turned it into a tyranny,” Nic. Dam. F.H.G. III. p. 393; “they say that Periander the Corinthian was originally popular (δημοτικόν), but afterwards changed his policy and became tyrannical,” Greg. Cypr. III. 30 = Leutsch, Paroem. Gr. II. p. 89; cp. (almost the same words) Schol. Hipp. Maj. 304 E; cp. also Diog. Laert. I. 7. 5. Hdt. V. 92. 23 regards Periander’s early mildness as a change from Cypselus, but his account is frankly anti-Cypselid.