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This composition is intitled ISalamis, and consists of a hundred very beautiful lines. When Solon had done, his friends began to express their admiration, and Pi- sistratus, in particular, exerted himself in persuading the people to comply with his directions ; whejr^on they repealed the law^ once more undertook the war. 176 PI^UTARCH. mad inrcsted Sol according to the custom of the country, were offering sacrifice to Ceres there, he sent a trusty person to Salamis, who was to pr...etend he was a deserter, and to adrise the Megarensians, if they bad a niind to seise the principal Athenian matrons* to set si|il immediately for CoUas. The Megarensians readily embracing' the proposal, and sending out a body of me.n, Solon disr covered the ship as it put off from the island ; and causing the women directly to withdraw* ordered a number of young men, whose faces were yet smooth, to dress themselves in their habits, caps, and shoes^ Thus, with weapons concealed under their clothes, they were to dance and play, by the sea-side, till the enemy was landed, and the vessel near enough to be seized.
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