![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is also said that a certain utterance of his which was current before his election, to the effect that equality bred no war, pleased both the men of substance and those who had none the former expecting to have equality based on worth and excellence, the latter on measure and count. 1 However, he was chosen archon 2 to succeed Philombrotus, and made mediator and legislator for the crisis, the rich accepting him readily because he was well-to-do, and the poor because he was honest. And yet Phanias the Lesbian writes that Solon of his own accord played a trick upon both parties in order to save the city, and secretly promised to the poor the distribution of land which they desired, and to the rich, validation of their securities.īut Solon himself says that he entered public life reluctantly, and fearing one party's greed and the other party's arrogance. They therefore besought him to come forward publicly and put an end to the prevailing dissensions. They saw that he was the one man least implicated in the errors of the time that he was neither associated with the rich in their injustice, nor involved in the necessities of the poor. At this point, the wisest of the Athenians cast their eyes upon Solon. ![]()
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