Editing Solon (section)

=== Death and legacy ===
After his return to Athens, Solon became a staunch opponent of Pisistratus. In protest, and as an example to others, Solon stood outside his own home in full armour, urging all who passed to resist the machinations of the would-be tyrant. His efforts were in vain. Solon died shortly after Pisistratus usurped by force the autocratic power that Athens had once freely bestowed upon him.<ref>Plutarch, [[s:Lives (Dryden translation)/Solon#32|''Solon'' 32]]</ref> Solon died in Cyprus around the age of 70{{citation needed|date=August 2021}} and, in accordance with his will, his ashes were scattered around Salamis, the island where he was born.<ref>Diogenes Laertius 1.62</ref><ref>I. M. Linforth, ''Solon the Athenian'', University of California Press (1919), p. 308, [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZwEdAAAAYAAJ&q=solon+place+of+death Google Books link]</ref>

[[Pausanias (geographer)|Pausanias]] listed Solon among the [[Seven Sages of Greece|Seven Sages]], whose aphorisms adorned [[Temple of Apollo (Delphi)|Apollo's temple]] in [[Delphi]].<ref>Pausanias 10.24.1 (e.g. Jones and Omerod trans. [http://www.theoi.com/Text/Pausanias10B.html]).</ref> [[Stobaeus]] in the Florilegium relates a story about a [[symposium]] where Solon's young nephew was singing a poem of [[Sappho]]'s: Solon, upon hearing the song, asked the boy to teach him to sing it. When someone asked, "Why should you waste your time on it?", Solon replied, "{{lang|grc|ἵνα μαθὼν αὐτὸ ἀποθάνω}}", "So that I may learn it before I die."<ref>Stobaeus, III, 29, 58, taken from a lost work of [[Claudius Aelianus|Aelian]].</ref> [[Ammianus Marcellinus]], however, told a similar story about [[Socrates]] and the poet [[Stesichorus]], quoting the philosopher's rapture in almost identical terms: {{lang|la|ut aliquid sciens amplius e vita discedam}},<ref>Ammianus Marcellinus 38.4</ref> meaning "in order to leave life knowing a little more".