Does this count as an honor code violation?

From Herodotus, Histories, Book 1 section 59, concerning Pisistratus' ascension to the tyranny in Athens:

"So having designs upon the tyranny he gathered together a third party, and when he had culled together supporters and claimed in a speech to be the leader of the Hill People, he devised this trick: He lashed himself and his mule, then drove his cart into the agora as though he had fled enemies who had wanted to kill him as he was going into the fields. And he begged the people for a bodyguard to protect him."

Just something to keep in the back of your mind when you read this astounding story: "Conservative student admits to fabricating assault, threat emails."

I'm sensitive to the fact that had this been an assault on a liberal or a minority by a right-wing group, certain generalities and stereotypes would no doubt have lept to mind. So let's just leave this at what it is: utter weirdness.