Such are the only new political institutions (apart from the laws to be noticed presently) which there are grounds for ascribing to Solon, when we

Such were the divisions in the political scale established by Solon, called by Aristotle a "timocracy", in which the rights, honors, functions, and

. . . he was now called upon to draw up a constitution and laws for the better working of the government in future. His constitutional changes were

We may remark, too, that this more equitable tone of opinion grew up spontaneously, without any legal restriction on the rate of interest--no such

Never again do we hear of the law of debtor and creditor as disturbing Athenian tranquillity.Continuing Solon's Early Greek Legislation,our

We are told that after a short interval it became eminently acceptable in the general public mind, and procured for Solon a great increase of

It had happened in several Grecian states that the governing oligarchies, either by quarrels among their own members or by the general bad condition

It is on the occasion of Solon's legislation that we obtain our first glimpse--unfortunately but a glimpse--of the actual state of Attica and its