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Sardes, and reigned fourteen years ( 2 ), and therefore began toGREExs.reign an. 3. olymp. 55. After Solon had made laws for theAthenians, he obliged them upon oarh to obferve thofe laws tillhe returned from his travels ( 3 ); and then travelled ten years,going to Egypt and Cyprus ( 4 ), and vifiting Thales of Miletus:aud upon his return to Athens, Piliilratus began to affedt the ty-ranny of that city, which made Solon travel a fecond time( 5 );and now ( 6 ) he was invited ( 7 ) by Croefus to Sardes ; and Croefus,before Solon vifited him, had fubdued ali Alia Minor, as far asto the river Halys ( s ); and therefore he received that vilit towardsthe latter part of his reign ; and we may place it upon the ninthyear thereof, an. 3. olymp. 57: and the legifluture of Solontwelve years earlier, an. 3. olymp. 54: and that of Draco ftillten years earlier (’), an. 1. olymp. 52. After Solon had vifitedCroefus, he went into Cilicia and forne other places ( I0 ), and dieda in his travels ("): and this was in the fecond year of the ty-*Phaniasranny of Pififtratus. Comias was archon when Solon returned in vitafrom his firft travels to Athens; and the next year Hegelfratus °° nis 'was archon (“), and Solon died before the end of the year, an.

3. olymp. 57. as above: and by this reckoning the objedtion ofPlutarch above-mentioned is removed.

LVI. We have now lhewed that the Phcenicians of Zidon,under the conducft of Cadmus and other captains, flying fromtheir enemies, came into Greece, with letters and other arts,about the fixteenth year of king David’s reign ; that Europa thefifter of Cadmus fled forne days before him from Zidon and cameto Crete, and there became the mother of Minos about the 1 Sth

(’) Eufeb. in Chron. ( 3 ) Plutarch in Solone, Tom.I. p, 92. Herodot. lib. i.c. 29.

P) Plutarch, ibid. Herodot. ibid. et lib. 5. c. 113.

( 5 ) Diog. Laert. lib. r. fegrn. 50. Meurlius. Solon, c. 28.

(*) Meurfius, ibid. ( 7 ) Plutarch. in Solone, Tom. I. p. 93.

( s ) Herodot. lib. 1. c. 18.

(*) Clemens Alexandrinus (Strom. lib. j. c. 16.) and Eufebius (ia Chron.) place the legifla-t^on of Draco in the Z9th olympiad. And Ulpian, in his commentary upon Demofthenes’s ora-tion againft Timocrates, aiferts» npon the authority of Diodorus, that Draco was earlier thanSolon by 47 years. Vid. Demoli, edit. Woif. p, 828. Tzetzes (Chii. 5. 5.) reckons 00iy fevenyears between Draco and Solon.

( IO ) Diog. Laert. lib. l. fegm. 51, Vid. Meurfium in Solon, c. 26.

('*) Diogenes Laertius (lib. i. fegm 62.) fays that he died in Cyprus. Plutarch (in Solone)and yElian (Var. Hifl. lib. 8. c. 16.) fay that he died at Athens,

(‘ ) Plutarch in Solon, towards the end.

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