26.3
He also remained and took charge of the new city’s consolidation, and helped to arrange it in the best possible manner both for convenience of living and for safety. The result was that many colonists flocked to Philocyprus, and he was the envy of the other kings. He therefore paid Solon the honor of naming the new city after him, and called it Soli; its name had been Aipeia.
26.4
Solon himself also makes mention of this consolidation. In his elegies, namely, he addresses Philocyprus and says:— Fragment 19 (Bergk). Now mayest thou long time be lord and master for the Solii here, Dwelling in this city thyself, and thy family after thee; But may I and my swift ship, as we leave this storied isle, Be brought upon our way in safety by Cypris of the violet crown. Upon this settlement of thine may she bestow favour and glory; And upon me an auspicious return to my fatherland.
27.1
As for his interview with Croesus, some think to prove by chronology that it is fictitious. But when a story is so famous and so well-attested, and, what is more to the point, when it comports so well with the character of Solon, and is so worthy of his magnanimity and wisdom, I do not propose to reject it out of deference to any chronological canons, so called, which thousands are to this day revising, without being able to bring their contradictions into any general agreement.
