Thus legislation and science sprung simultaneously into life, and the age of Solon is the age of Thales.
XIV.

Of the seven wise men (if we accept that number) who flourished about the same period, six were rulers and statesmen.

They were eminent, not as physical, but as moral, philosophers; and their wisdom was in their maxims and apothegms.

They resembled in much the wary and sagacious tyrants of Italy in the middle ages--masters of men's actions by becoming readers of their minds.

Of these seven, Periander of Corinth (began to reign B.C.625, died B.C.