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He was flourishing about the 42nd Olympiad. He died in the archonship of Aristomenes, in the third year of the 52nd Olympiad,570b.c. having lived more than seventy years, to a good old age. The inscription on his monument runs thusAnth. Plan. ii. 3.: Here holy Lesbos, with a mother’s woe, Bewails her Pittacus whom death laid low. To him belongs the apophthegm, Know thine opportunity.
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There was another Pittacus, a legislator, as is stated by Favorinus in the first book of his Memorabilia, and by Demetrius in his work on Men of the Same Name. He was called the Less.
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To return to the Sage: the story goes that a young man took counsel with him about marriage, and received this answer, as given by Callimachus in his EpigramsAnth. Pal. vii. 89.:
