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I) ; Hauvette, Archiloque, (Paris, 1905) ; Hauvette, in Rev. D. Etudes Greques, 1901. 74 EXTEMPORARY SPEECH IN ANTIQUITY Solon's poetry is in the main the expression of his political life against those who criticised his measures. 20 As Tyrtaeus' songs roused the Spartans to reconquer Messenia, so Solon, after writing and getting by heart his poem, Salamis, recited it in the market- place as if it were an extemporary outburst, and with Pisistratus' aid, inspired the Athenians to renew the war. ...21 The history of Greek eloquence is practically the history of elo- quence at Athens. In historic times Athens was the city which was regarded as the true home of eloquence: (urbs) in qua et nata et alta sit eloquentia, 22 the city which Isocrates later made the "school of Greece. " 23 It was not, however, until after the expulsion of the tyrants and the establishment of the democracy that eloquence began to flourish to any great extent even in Athens. 24 For this Cicero gives the reason : "nee enim in constituentibus rem publicam nee in bella gerentibus nee in impeditis ac regum dominatione de- vinctis nasci cupiditas dicendi solet.
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