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and to have replied thusFr. 20 Bergk.: Oh take a friend’s suggestion, blot the line, Grudge not if my invention better thine; Surely a wiser wish were thus expressed, At eighty years let me be laid to rest. Of the songs sung this is attributed to SolonFr. 42 Bergk.: Watch every man and see whether, hiding hatred in his heart, he speaks with friendly countenance, and his tongue rings with double speech from a dark soul.
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He is undoubtedly the author of the laws which bear his name; of speeches, and of poems in elegiac metre, namely, counsels addressed to himself, on Salamis and on the Athenian constitution, five thousand lines in all, not to mention poems in iambic metre and epodes.
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His statue has the following inscriptionAnth. Pal. vii. 86.: At Salamis, which crushed the Persian might, Solon the legislator first saw light.
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He flourished, according to Sosicrates, about the 46th Olympiad, in the third year of which he was archon at Athens594 b.c.; it was then that he enacted his laws. He died in Cyprus at the age of eighty. His last injunctions to his relations were on this wise: that they should convey his bones to Salamis and, when they had been reduced to ashes, scatter them over the soil. Hence Cratinus in his play, The Chirons, makes him sayFr. 5 Meineke, C.G.F. ii. 149.: This is my island home; my dust, men say, Is scattered far and wide o’er Ajax’ land.
