Σόλων

Sections

1.1 – 1.3 1.4 – 2.2 2.3 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.4 3.5 – 4.1 4.2 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.1 5.2 – 5.3 6.1 – 6.2 6.3 – 7.1 7.2 – 7.3 7.4 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.4 10.1 – 10.2 10.3 – 10.4 11.11 – 11.2 12.1 – 12.2 12.3 – 12.4 12.5 – 12.6 13.1 – 13.2 13.3 – 14.1 14.2 – 14.3 14.4 – 14.5 14.6 – 15.2 15.2 – 15.4 15.5 – 15.6 15.7 – 16.1 16.2 – 16.3 17.1 – 18.1 18.2 – 18.3 18.4 – 18.5 19.1 – 19.2 19.3 – 19.4 20.1 – 20.2 20.3 – 20.4 20.5 – 21.1 21.2 – 21.4 21.5 – 22.1 22.2 – 22.4 23.1 – 23.3 23.4 – 23.5 23.6 – 24.1 24.2 – 24.3 25.1 – 25.2 25.3 – 25.4 25.5 – 26.2 26.3 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.3 27.4 – 27.5 27.6 – 27.7 28.1 – 28.3 28.4 – 29.1 29.2 – 29.3 29.4 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.3 30.4 – 30.5 30.6 – 31.1 31.2 – 31.3 32.1 – 32.4

İngilizce Yunanca

27.4 Solon said he had, and that the man was Tellus, a fellow-citizen of his own; Tellus, he went on to say, had proved himself an honest man, had left reputable sons behind him, and had closed a life which knew no serious want with a glorious display of valor in behalf of his country. Croesus at once judged Solon to be a strange and uncouth fellow, since he did not make an abundance of gold and silver his measure of happiness, but admired the life and death of an ordinary private man more than all this display of power and sovereignty.

27.5 Notwithstanding, he asked him again whether, next to Tellus, he knew any other man more fortunate than he. Again Solon said he did naming Cleobis and Bito, men surpassing all others in brotherly love and in dutiful affection towards their mother; for once, he said, when the car in which she was riding was delayed by the oxen, they took the yoke upon their own shoulders and brought their mother to the temple of Hera, where her countrymen called her a happy woman and her heart was rejoiced; then, after sacrifice and feasting, they laid themselves to rest, and never rose again, but were found to have died a painless and tranquil death with so great honor fresh upon them.