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Different narratives of Alkmaionid exile have been constructed on the basis of inscriptional and literary evidence. I argue that the manuscript reading of Herodotus is correct and that Alkmeonides (Megakles II's younger brother) lead the Alkmaionidai into exile after 546 BC. Before the publication of what is now agreed to be an Athenian archon list (Meritt and IG ­I³ 1031a), Herodotus' account of the Alkmaionidai going into exile after Peisistratus' coup in 546 BC, provided us with our story. Wesseling's emendation of the manuscript reading of Hdt.