But Pisistratus lived thirty-three years after his first usurpation, so that, if he had acted in the first expedition to Salamis, he would have lived to an age little short of one hundred, and been considerably past eighty at the time of his third most brilliant and most energetic government! The most probable date for the birth of Pisistratus is that assigned by Mr.Clinton, about B.C.595, somewhat subsequent to Solon's expedition to Salamis, and only about a year prior to Solon's legislation.

According to this date, Pisistratus would have been about sixty-eight at the time of his death.

The error of Plutarch evidently arose from his confounding two wars with Megara for Salamis, attended with similar results--the first led by Solon, the second by Pisistratus.

I am the more surprised that Mr.Thirlwall should have fallen into the error of making Pisistratus contemporary with Solon in this affair, because he would fix the date of the recovery of Salamis at B.C.604 (see note to Thirlwall's Greece, p.

25, vol.ii.), and would suppose Solon to be about thirty-two at that time (viz., twenty-six years old in 612 B.C.).