the Athenians by the herald and roused them to fury. They renewed the war with the Megarians and, thanks to Solon, were victorious. These were the lines which did more than anything else to inflame the Athenians @ : Would I were citizen of some mean isle Far in the Sporades! For men shall smile And mock me for Athenian : ‘* Who is this 2? ” ‘““ An Attic slave who gave up Salamis ”’ ; and 8 Then let us fight for Salamis and fair fame, Win the beloved isle, and purge our shame ! He also persuaded the Athenians to acquire the Thracian Chersonese. And lest it should be thought that he had acquired Salamis by force only and not of right, he opened certain graves and showed that the dead were buried with their faces to the east, as was the custom of burial among the Athenians ; further, that the tombs themselves faced the east,¢ and that the inscriptions graven upon them named the deceased by their demes, which is a style peculiar to Athens. Some authors assert that in Homer’s catalogue of the ships after the line @: Ajax twelve ships from Salamis commands, Solon inserted one of his own: And fixed their station next the Athenian bands. Thereafter the people looked up to him, and