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The Origin of Tyranny

Note 186 — Chapter II · Athens

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Hdt. I. 59; Plut., Solon, 13, Amat. 18, Praecept. 10 (Moral. 763, 805), imagines this third party as existing at the time of Solon’s reforms: but his account is inconsistent in itself and contradicts Hdt. See Sandys, Ath. Pol.2 p. 55, Busolt, Gr. G.2 (1895), II. p. 302, n. 2, following Diels, Abh. Berl. Akad. 1885, p. 20, and Landwehr, Philol. Suppl. V. (1889), p. 155.

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