[101] As at Megara (Grote, ii, 418).
[102] See Grote, ii, 381, as to the general development.
[103] But cp. Grote, ii, 420, as to the case of Megara.
[104] Grote, ii, 490-94.
[105] Cp. Meyer, ii, 651.
[106] Bury, pp. 183-84.
[107] Eduard Meyer writes of Solon (ii, 649) that "aller Radicalismus liegt ihm fern"; and, two pages later, as to the freeing of the peasantry, that "Hier konnte nur ein radicales Mittel, ein Bruch des formellen Rechts, Hülfe bringen."
[108] Grote (ii, 471) finds this incredible; it is hard to see why. Plutarch (14, 16) is explicit on the point; so also the Athenian Polity, c. 11.
[109] Friends of Solon's in the upper classes took advantage of a disclosure of his plans to buy up land in advance, escaping full payment under his law cancelling debts (Plutarch, Solon, c. 15; Aristotle, Athenian Polity, c. 6). See Plutarch, c. 16, as to the moderation and popularity of Peisistratos.
[110] See below, pt. ii, ch. ii, § 1.