Rous, Francis; Bogan, Zachary [Editor]: Archaeologiae Atticae Libri Septem (Oxford, 1658)

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« Lib.a.p.27 ^ a Justin ^ath Deen 100 forward in relating
the mutation os the Athenian government,,
palling by the perpetual! 8c decennial! con-
tuls,and naming only the yearely: so hath
he erred in the originall os their LaWes.ma^
king Solon the Father of them, but it seems
&Arist.Phit. otherwise.For, as b Gerardus hath observed , tbeseus gave
cln Thesco ^awes totIle dthenians. And « Plutarch witnesseth, that
p.8,1.2,e when he congregated the Attick people, and constituted a
' ' sieniocracy, he reserved only to himselse the government of
warre and cisstody of Lawes. &ti(M>x.&g.Ti'*.v (nryleivav') 'cwim
l&vttv o-yx>m 7m^ty* x) visiiup svKaxj jgHou/rf/jlw. Addc to this,
that besore the knowledge of letter* & writing, it was a cu-
d Problem. ft°me amongthe ancients to sing their laws, lest they mighe
9m/8'.^».x». forget them3used in the daies of d Arislotle by the Agathyrsi3
sol,t8j.b. a people neere tp the Scythians, Whence asterwards the
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