Note 256 — Chapter II · Athens

A means of equation would be to accept the reading of the Berlin papyrus ἀποίκων for ἀγροίκων and then, pace Busolt, Gr. G. II.2 p. 96, n. 1, identify the ἄποικοι (men away from home; cp. the Milesian ἀειναῦται, men always at sea) with the πάραλοι (men of the coast). The demiourgoi would then be identified with the Diakrioi, and it would have to be assumed that the youthful Peisistratus was already leading his faction. Laurentius Lydus, de Magistr. I. 47, makes Solon import from Egypt a triple division into philosopher nobles, warrior farmers, and mechanics (τὴν βάναυσον καὶ τεχνουργόν). The statement appears among the fragments of Diodorus IX. in Dindorf’s text; but the attribution is disputed, e.g. by Landwehr, Philol. Suppl. V. (1889), p. 141. The reading ἄγροικοι rather than ἄποικοι is supported by Dion. Hal. II. 9; see further Gilliard, Réformes de Solon, p. 105, n. 2.