NEWIIALL. — PISISTRATUS AND HOMER. 505 



Ttvd, airopd8rjv rrjs 7roiryo-e&)j, uf erv^f, 8ia(p(pop(VT]s. yvcoptprjv 8( airrjv ku\ 



fidXia-ra irpcoros inoirja-f 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\f/( 8( AvKovpyos 6 AaK(8aipovios a6poav npcoros (s ttjv 'EXXd8a (Koptae 



rfjv 'Op.r]pov TToirjaiv. So much 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 prj V dXXd rac 



Mtyapewv (nip(vovTiov noXXd kukci m\ 8pcovT(s iv t<£> iroXipca Koi 7rdo~x°vT(s enoir}- 

 travro AaK(8aip.oviovs 8iaXXaKrds Kai 8iKaards. Oi p,ei> ovv ttoXXoX tco 2uXcovc 

 avvayoivicrauBai Xiyovcri ttjv 'Opfjpov 86£av ' ip^aXovra yap avrbv enos (Is v«2>v 



Kard\oyov eVi rfjs Slktjs dvayvavcu, — then follow verses 557 and 558 of 

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



evioi 8i (ftacri Kai iyypdy\rai civtov (Is rbv KardXoyov tov 'Oprjpov fiera rbv (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 (<pi»Tio-(v, according to 

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



rd re 'Oprjpov e£ {moftoXrjs yeypacpe pa\|/&)8fio-#ai, olov onov 6 Trparos tXrjgev, 

 Uddev cipxeo-dai tou ix°t l€P0V ' M"^ " °v" 2oXa>i> "Oprjpov i(pwTi.crei> */ Iletai- 

 trrpaTos, cos (prjai. Anvx^as iv nipTTrco Meynpincov. 



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 : 'linrdpx<0, os rav neicTHTTpdrov traiScov rjv Tvpea-fivTaros Kai cro(pco- 

 tcitos, os uXXa re noXXd koi koXci epya ao(pias «7i-«Sei'£aro, Kal rd 'Opljpov eni] 

 nptoTos cKdpio-ev els rfjV yrjv ravrr^vi, mat i]vdy<aa( tovs pay\rco8ovs Uavadrjvaiois 

 (tj v7roXl]\f/(cos icp(&)s avrd Suevai, coairep vvv en oi8( noioiaiu. Now the 



question whether Plato or somebody else wrote the dialogue which 

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

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



