NEWIIALL. — PISISTRATUS AND HOMER. 505 



Ttvd, (TTTopd^riv Trjs Troir^crfoiy, wf eTv\f, 8ia(f)fpOfievi]s- yvuipiprju be avrrju Kal 



fiaXicrTa Trpcoros cnoirjaf AvKovpyos. This again is interesting as throwing 

 light on the life of Lycurgus and the early history of the Homeric 

 poems, though it is not of a nature to influence our judgment as to 

 the truth or falsity of the Pisistratean story. And lastly Aelian (XIII, 

 14) makes substantially the same statement about Lycurgus when he 



writes : o\//€ fie AvKovpyos 6 AaKe8aip,6vios ddpoau Trptoros es ttjv 'E\Xd8a enopiae 



TTju 'OpTjpov TToiTjaiu. So mucli for Lycurgus. 



We have already seen that the insertion of verse 558 of Iliad B was 

 said by Strabo to have been ascribed by one tradition to Pisistratus 

 and by another to Solon. To this I can add two accounts by some- 

 what later writers who, from hearsay or report, make Solon the author 

 of the same interpolation without any mention of Pisistratus. The 

 first of these is from Plutarch's life of Solon (X, 1) : ov prjv dXXd rav 



Meyapecjv enipevovToiv TroWa KaKa /cat hpatvTes iv toj ivokep.a kol Trdaxovres inoir)- 

 aauTO AaK(8aipoviovs diaWaKTas Koi StKocrTos. Ot pev oiiv ttoWol t<o 'SoXavt 

 avvayavicracrdai Xeyovai ttjv 'Opfjpov 86^ai> ' (p^aXovra yap avTou enos els vecav 



KardXoyov eni t^? Sikj/s dvayvavai, — then follow verses 557 and 558 of 

 Iliad B. Diogenes Laertius (1, 2, 48) also writes with regard to Solon : 



e'fioi 8e (f>a(Ti Kal eyypd^^rai avrov els tov KardXoyov tox) 'Oprjpov perd tov (v. 557, 



V. 558). And, to end the discussion of Solon, we have in Diogenes 

 Laertius still another passage already quoted (1, 57) which bears 

 testimony merely to a certain literary activity in connection with 

 Homer on the part of Solon, earlier of course than the time of Pi- 

 sistratus. In a certain respect, expressed by ecftiina-ev, according to 

 Dieuchidas the Megarian, Solon is said to have surpassed Pisistratus : 



Tu re 'Opfjpov e^ inro^oXrjs yeypa(pe pa'yf/cpdeladai, oiov ottov 6 npcoros eXrj^ev, 

 eKeideu apj^eadai tov e)(6pevov. pdXXov ovv '^okuiv Oprjpov e(pa>Ticrev rj Ilejcri- 

 (TTpaTos, S)s (prjai Aiev)(i8as ev irepnTtp MeyaptKcjv. 



Hipparchus, the elder of the sons of Pisistratus, is the only other 

 man to whom I have found activity in connection with the Homeric 

 poems ascribed. In one account he is said to have brought them to 

 Greece, in the other, to Athens, and in both to have ordered the rhap- 

 sodes to sing them at the Panathenaic festival. The first account, 

 contained in the pseudo-Platonic dialogue Hipparchus (228 B) runs 



as follows : 'l7r7rap;^<jp, bs tuiv UeicricrTpdTov TraiScov ^v Tvpea^vraros Ka\ aocfxi)- 

 Taros, OS aXXa re TroAXa Ka\ KnKci epya (TO(f)ias direSei^aTO, Kal rd 'Oprjpov enrj 

 irpcoTos eKopiaev eis rrjv yjjv ravTrjvi, kcu rjvdyKarre tovs pay^o)8ovs Uavadrjvaiois 

 (^ I'TToXijx^ews ((pe^rjs avTu 8uevai, acrnep vvv en ot8e noiovo'iv. NoW the 



question whether Plato or somebody else wrote the dialogue which 

 contains this information is not essential to this investigation. But it 

 is necessary for us to ascertain as nearly as may be when it was writ- 



