[111] Plutarch, Solon, 13, 29.
[112] As to his tactic in building up a party see Busolt, Griech. Gesch. 1885, i, 550-53. But the panegyric of Peisistratos as a ruler by Messrs. Mitchell and Caspari (abr. of Grote, p. 58) is extravagant. The tyrant is there extolled for the most primitive device of the ruler seeking popularity, the remission of taxes to individuals.
[113] Grote, ii, 468, 496.
[114] Herodotus, v, 66-69.
[115] Plutarch, Solon, c. 24.
[116] Bk. vii, c. 15.
[117] Plutarch, Alcibiades, c. 34.
[118] Grote, ch. 46.
[119] Cp. Meyer, Geschichte des Alterthums, iv, § 446.
[120] Rev. A.S. Way's translation of Euripides, Medea, 829-30.