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Often appears with: zeuxippus · treason and sedition · trade, markets, and merchants · torture and interrogation · solon · pompey the great · political legitimacy and consent · pi- and pl- place-names · mixed constitution · lycurgus · love of learning · history and the writing of history
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“For where we have a monarchy, an aristocracy, and a democracy existing together in the same city, each of the three serves as a check upon the other.” Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius · precept
Brachyllas is assassinated by men from Theban factions; Zeuxippus and others are suspected, examined under torture, and Zeuxippus flees to Athens while Pisistratus is executed.
flight of his slave, withdrew to Athens, where he thought he might live in exile with greater safety. Pisistratus, after being examined several times by torture, was put to death. 29. This murder exasperated the Thebans, and all the Boeotians, to the most rancorous animosity against the Romans, for they considered that Zeuxippus, one of the first men of the nation, had not been party to such a crime without the inst…
Plutarch begins the Solon section, summarizing claims about Solon’s parentage and friendship with Pisistratus, and using poems and anecdotes to argue Solon was shaped by beauty, commerce, and a love of learning.
of their love and dear affection. For that Solon was not proof against beauty, nor of courage to stand up to passion and meet it, Hand to hand as in the ring-- we may conjecture by his poems, and one of his laws, in which there are practices forbidden to slaves, which he would appear, therefore, to recommend to freemen. Pisistratus, it is stated, was similarly attached to one Charmus; he it was who dedicated the f…
The catalog continues under “Pi-” and “Pl-,” listing settlements, islands, regions, and notable individuals (e.g., Pisistratus, Pompey, Plato) as cross-referenced items in Strabo’s work.
*Piomba.* *See* Matrinus. Pionia, t. of the Leleges in Mysia, ii. 381. *Pira.* *See* Pyrrha. Piræeus, same as Amisus, ii. 294. Piræus, i. 91; ii. 79, 85, 87, 89, 91; iii. 32. Pirithous, i. 76, 507. Pisa, tract of country, ii. 32. ——, c. of Elis, ii. 31, 32. ——, ftn, ii. 31, 32. ——, c. of Etruria, i. 315, 323, 329, 330, 334. Pisātæ, in Elis, i. 330; ii. 9, 15, 28, 30, 31, 33, 39. ——, in Etruria, i. 331, 334…
Machiavelli argues that all six government forms are pernicious—good ones short-lived and bad ones inherently flawed—and recommends a mixed constitution where monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy mutually check each other, citing Sparta and Athens.
respect to civil rights what had been a government of the best into a government of the few; and so very soon met with the same fate as the tyrant. For the multitude loathing its rulers, lent itself to any who ventured, in whatever way, to attack them; when some one man speedily arose who with the aid of the people overthrew them. But the recollection of the tyrant and of the wrongs suffered at his hands being still…