instead of noble. Pallene [is] a deme of Attica [1], where Peisistratos, when seeking to become tyrant, fought a war against the Athenians who did not want him to. "To look Pallene-ish" is a way of saying to behave cruelly and harshly towards the enemy, as once [happened] towards Peisistratos the tyrant, when we fought the battle in Pallene. Alternatively Ballene, given the close relationship between b and p; from throwing [βάλλειν ] stones. For it is a way of saying that one should find the enemy and stone him.[2]