Iam Solon, qui tam praeclaras tamque utiles Atheniensibus leges tulit ut si iis perpetuo uti voluissent, sempiternum habituri fuerint imperium, qui Salaminam velut hostilem arcem ex propinquo saluti eorum imminentem recuperavit, qui Pisistrati tyrannidem primus vidit orientem, solus armis opprimi debere palam dictitare ausus, senectutem Cypri profugus exegit, neque ei in patria, de qua optime meruerat, humari contigit.
And Solon? He who proposed such splendid and useful laws for the Athenians that if they had chosen to practise them in perpetuity they would have kept their empire forever; who recovered Salamis, which threatened their safety from close by like an enemy citadel; who was the first to see Pisistratus tyranny rising and the only one who dared to say openly that it should be crushed by arms'Solon spent his old age as a fugitive in Cyprus and did not find burial in the country from which he had deserved so much.
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