The Apology
   Part
 1 Intro|          of Critias, the poem of Solon, the virtues of Charmides,


Charmides
   Part
 2 Intro|    connection of his family with Solon (Tim.), and had been the
 3 Text |         is inherited by you from Solon. But why do you not call
 4 Text |  panegyrical verses of Anacreon, Solon, and many other poets, as


Critias
   Part
 5 Intro|         who has used the name of Solon and introduced the Egyptian
 6 Intro|   professing only to repeat what Solon was told by the priests.
 7 Intro|        Greek names were given to Solon in an Egyptian form, and
 8 Intro|          in the Egyptian poem of Solon of which there is no evidence
 9 Intro|          and the connection with Solon, may have suggested the
10 Text |    priests and brought hither by Solon, I doubt not that I shall
11 Text |    actions. This I infer because Solon said that the priests in
12 Text |          you the reason of this: Solon, who was intending to use
13 Text |    palace nearly in the words of Solon, and now I must endeavour


Laches
   Part
14 Text |       heed of his after-life; as Solon says, he will wish and desire
15 Text |        him: for I too agree with Solon, ‘that I would fain grow


Laws
   Book
16 9    |     disgraceful for Lycurgus and Solon and others who were legislators


Phaedrus
   Part
17 Intro|     improbable. Like the poem of Solon, or the story of Thamus
18 Text |        the power, as Lycurgus or Solon or Darius had, of attaining
19 Text |          to music or not; and to Solon and others who have composed


Protagoras
   Part
20 Text |      Bias of Priene, and our own Solon, and Cleobulus the Lindian,


The Republic
   Book
21 7    |          must not do so in this. Solon was under a delusion when
22 10   |          Charondas, and there is Solon who is renowned among us;


The Symposium
   Part
23 Text |         as one may say? There is Solon, too, who is the revered


Timaeus
   Part
24 Intro|           Socrates, to a tale of Solon’s, who, being the friend
25 Intro|        recitation. Some poems of Solon were recited by the boys.
26 Intro|      compliment to Critias, that Solon was not only the wisest
27 Intro|      hearing this, and said: Had Solon only had the leisure which
28 Intro|       the whole story, and where Solon heard the story.’ He replied—
29 Intro|     related to them. Hither came Solon, and was received with honour;
30 Intro|      aged priest said to him: ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are
31 Intro|    priest said to him: ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are ever young,
32 Intro|          out of your own annals, Solon, are a mere children’s story.
33 Intro|       under the face of heaven.’ Solon marvelled, and desired to
34 Intro|         which Critias heard from Solon; and I noticed when listening
35 Intro|   identified with the reality of Solon, and our antediluvian ancestors
36 Intro|      record spoke. As the law of Solon prescribes, we will bring
37 Intro|          to have been brought by Solon from Egypt. That is another
38 Intro|         It is only a legend that Solon went to Egypt, and if he
39 Intro|        in turn had heard it from Solon himself? Is not the famous
40 Intro|       transferred to the poem of Solon? ‘It is not improbable,’
41 Intro|            says Mr. Grote, ‘that Solon did leave an unfinished
42 Intro|     critic? How came the poem of Solon to disappear in antiquity?
43 Intro|        that the tale was told to Solon by an Egyptian priest, nor
44 Intro|          nor can we believe that Solon wrote a poem upon the theme
45 Intro|        was brought from Egypt by Solon and made the subject of
46 Intro|         the conversation between Solon and the Egyptian priest,
47 Intro|       found the famous words, ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are
48 Intro|          famous words, ‘O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are ever young,
49 Text |          having been attested by Solon, who was the wisest of the
50 Text |    declared, on the authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend,
51 Text |          of us sang the poems of Solon, which at that time had
52 Text |        said that in his judgment Solon was not only the wisest
53 Text |      smiling: Yes, Amynander, if Solon had only, like other poets,
54 Text |     story, and how and from whom Solon heard this veritable tradition.~
55 Text |          them. To this city came Solon, and was received there
56 Text |          very great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are
57 Text |        great age, said: O Solon, Solon, you Hellenes are never
58 Text |        not an old man among you. Solon in return asked him what
59 Text |        just now recounted to us, Solon, they are no better than
60 Text |      word. For there was a time, Solon, before the great deluge
61 Text |        under the face of heaven. Solon marvelled at his words,
62 Text |      welcome to hear about them, Solon, said the priest, both for
63 Text |    within the straits; and then, Solon, your country shone forth,
64 Text |          aged Critias heard from Solon and related to us. And when
65 Text | particular with the narrative of Solon; but I did not like to speak
66 Text |      accordance with the tale of Solon, and equally with his law,