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" Solon was the only man, who, without fear or shrinking, deplored the folly of the times, and reproached the Athenians with their cowardice and treachery. You might, said he, with ease have crushed the tyrant in the bud; but nothing now remains but to... "
A Smaller History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest - Page 34
by Sir William Smith - 1889 - 248 pages
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A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest

William Smith - Greece - 1860 - 718 pages
...alone had the courage to oppose the usurpation, and upbraided the people with their cowardice and then- treachery. " You might," said he, " with ease have...nothing now remains but to pluck him up by the roots." No one, however, responded to his appeal. He refused to fly; and when his friends asked him on what...
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A History of Greece: From the Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest, with ...

Sir William Smith - Greece - 1883 - 762 pages
...Solon alone had the courage to oppose the usurpation, and upbraided the people with their cowardice and their treachery. " You might," said he, " with...appeal. He refused to fly ; and when his friends asked hirn on what he relied for protection, " On my old age," was his reply. It is creditable to Pisistratus...
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A History of Greece: From Earliest Times to the Roman Conquest ; with ...

William Smith - Greece - 1854 - 756 pages
...Solon alone had the courage to oppose the usurpation, and upbraided the people with their cowardice and their treachery. " You might," said he, " with...But no one responded to his appeal. He refused to Hy ; and when his friends asked him on what he relied for protection, "On my old age," was his reply....
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Six Thousand Years of History

Edgar Sanderson, John Porter Lamberton, Charles Morris - 1905 - 500 pages
...still continued to denounce him, and upbraided the people with their cowardice. "You might," he said, "with ease have crushed the tyrant in the bud, but...He refused to fly, and when his friends asked him upon what he relied for protection, "On my old age," was his reply. It is creditable to Pisistratus...
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