He wishes us to understand that the third tyranny of Pisistratus, being wholesome, was also acceptable to the Athenians, and not, as it in a great measure was, supported by borrowed treasure and foreign swords.
[234] Who, according to Plutarch, first appeared at the return of Solon; but the proper date for his exhibitions is ascertained (Fast.
Hell., vol.ii., p.

11) several years after Solon's death.
[235] These two wars, divided by so great an interval of time,--the one terminated by Periander of Corinth, the other undertaken by Pisistratus,--are, with the usual blundering of Mr.Mitford, jumbled together into the same event.

He places Alcaeus in the war following the conquest of Sigeum by Pisistratus.

Poor Alcaeus! the poet flourished Olym.

42 (611 B.C.); the third tyranny of Pisistratus may date somewhere about 537 B.C., so that Alcaeus, had he been alive in the time ascribed by Mr.Mitford to his warlike exhibitions, would have been (supposing him to be born twenty-six years before the date of his celebrity in 611) just a hundred years old--a fitting age to commence the warrior! The fact is, Mr.Mitford adopted the rather confused account of Herodotus, without taking the ordinary pains to ascertain dates, which to every one else the very names of Periander and Alcaeus would have suggested.
[236] For the reader will presently observe the share taken by Croesus in the affairs of this Miltiades during his government in the Chersonesus; now Croesus was conquered by Cyrus about B.C.