We will relate two anecdotes that appear in the historian Polyaenus’s Stratagems (V.14—V.15).    There once was a young man named Thrasymedes who fell in love with the daughter of Peisistratus, an ancient tyrant of Athens.  One day, as the girl was walking in an official processing through the streets of the city, Thrasymedes boldly approached her and attempted to engage her in conversation.