depositor himself, on pain of death. That the magistrate foundintoxicated should be punished with death. He has provided that the public recitations of Homer shall follow in fixed order“: thus the second reciter must begin from the place where the first left off. Hence, as Dieuchidas says in the fifth book of his Megarian History, Solon did more than Pisistratus to throw light on Homer. The \passage in Homer more particularly referred to is that beginning ‘ Those who dwelt at Athens...” ” Solon was the first to call the 30th day of the month the Old-and-New day, and to institute meetings of the nine archons for private conference, as stated by Apollodorus in the second book of his work On Legislators. When civil strife began, he did not take sides with those in the city, nor with the plain, nor yet with the coast section. One of his sayings is: Speech is the mirror of action; and another that the strongest and most capable is king. He compared laws to spiders’ webs, =] which stand firm when any light and yielding object falls upon them, while a larger thing breaks through ceteemeattt™ them and makes off. Secrecy he called the seal of ‘V _ speech, and occasion the seal of secrecy. He used to say that those who had influence with tyrants were like the pebbles employed in calculations ; for, as each of the pebbles represented now a large and now a small number, so the tyrants would treat each one of those about them at one time as great and famous, at another as of no account. On being asked why he had not framed any law against parricide,