Of his songs the most popular is this : With bow and well-stored quiver We must march against our foe, Words of his tongue can no man trust, For in his heart there is a deceitful thought. He also wrote poems in elegiac metre, some 600 lines, and a prose work On Laws for the use of the citizens. He was flourishing about the 42nd Olympiad. He died in the archonship of Aristomenes, in the third year of the 52nd Olympiad,’ having lived more than seventy years, to a good old age. The inscription on his monument runs thus ® : Here holy Lesbos, with a mother’s woe, Bewails her Pittacus whom death laid low. To him belongs the apophthegm, ‘‘ Know thine opportunity.” There was another Pittacus, a legislator, as is stated by Favorinus in the first book of his Memorabilia, and by Demetrius in his work on Men of the Same Name. He was called the Less. To return to the Sage: the story goes that a young man took counsel with him about marriage, and received this answer, as given by Callimachus in his Epigrams °¢ : A stranger of Atarneus thus inquired of Pittacus, the son of Hyrrhadius : Old sire, two offers of marriage are made to me; the one bride is in wealth and birth my equal ; The other is my superior. Which is the better? Come now and advise me which of the two I shall wed.