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

30.6 From that time on he lived in quiet retirement, and when his friends urged him to fly, he paid no heed to them, but kept on writing poems, in which he heaped reproaches on the Athenians:— If now ye suffer grievously through cowardice all your own, Cherish no wrath against the gods for this, For ye yourselves increased the usurper’s power by giving him a guard, And therefore are ye now in base subjection. Fragment 11. 1-4 (Bergk)

31.1 In view of this, many warned him that the tyrant would put him to death, and asked him on what he relied that he was so lost to all sense, to which he answered, My old age. However, when Peisistratus had become master of the situation, he paid such court to Solon by honoring him, showing him kindness, and inviting him to his palace, that Solon actually became his counsellor and approved of many of his acts. For he retained most of Solon’s laws, observing them first himself, and compelling his friends to do so.