Aelian fr. 77 Domingo-Forasté (74 Hercher). On Hippias the Athenian tyrant see also iota 545.
[1] On this episode see R. Drew Griffith, "Hippias' Missing Tooth (Hdt.6.107)," The Ancient History Bulletin 8.4 (1994) 121-122. Herodotus 6.107 reads as follows: 'During this time, Hippias son of Peisistratos was directing the advance of the barbarians into Marathon. In a dream the previous night it seemed to Hippias that he had slept with his own mother. He interpreted the dream to mean that he would return to Athens and regain his power and end his days as an old man in his own country. Such was his interpretation at that time. He continued therefore with his direction of the invasion, first of all by sending the slaves from Eretria to the island called Aigelia which belonged to the Styrians and then by bringing to their anchorage the ships which he had piloted into Marathon and deploying the Barbarian troops as they disembarked from their ships. In the midst of these activities he began to sneeze and cough more strongly than was usual. As was natural in a older man many of his teeth were loose and in a violent fit of coughing he spat out one of these which fell into the sand. He made a great effort to find it and when the tooth could not be discovered he groaned and spoke to his attendants: "This land is not ours and I will not be able to take possession of it. My tooth already possesses my share of it." It was in this way that Hippias now interpreted his dream to have come true.' (trans. Niall McCloskey)