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Solon, according to Laertius, flourifhed about 
Olymp. XLVI. and in the 3d year of it was archon, 
and publifhed his laws. This was the year before 
Chrift 590. What his age was at that time, he doth 
not tell us, but that he was 80 at his death j which 
by Plutarch, in his life of that lawgiver, is placed 
Olymp. LIII. 3. or the year before Chrift 562. If fo, 
he mult have been about 52 the year that he was ar- 
chon. And that he could not have been very young 
then, is plain, from the poll and credit he was in. 
Upon the expiration of his archonfhip, as we are 
informed by Plutarch, he travelled for 1 o years, and 
returned an old man, as indeed he was, being now 
about 62 years of age : This was the year before 
Chrift 580. During this interval, it is highly pro- 
bable, he had his interview with Crcefus (do), and 
brought back with him, to Athens, Homer's poems, 
which he might meet with at Smyrna, or fome other 
of the Ionian cities. Upon his return, he found his 
country torn with factions, and that Pififtratus had 
formed the defign of making himfelf mafter of the 
ftate, which he foon afterwards effected. What year 
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