He disdained flight; and, asked by his friends to what he trusted for safety from the wrath of the victor, replied, "To old age,"-- a sad reflection, that so great a man should find in infirmity that shelter which he claimed from glory.
V.

The remaining days and the latter conduct of Solon are involved in obscurity.

According to Plutarch, he continued at Athens, Pisistratus showing him the utmost respect, and listening to the counsel which Solon condescended to bestow upon him: according to Diogenes Laertius, he departed again from his native city [229], indignant at its submission, and hopeless of its freedom, refusing all overtures from Pisistratus, and alleging that, having established a free government, he would not appear to sanction the success of a tyrant.

Either account is sufficiently probable.

The wisdom of Solon might consent to mitigate what he could not cure, or his patriotism might urge him to avoid witnessing the changes he had no power to prevent.