Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), S, Scyphus, Seisachtheia

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Seisachtheia

（σεισάχθεια, “a shaking off of burdens”). A term used for the removal of the burden of debt effected by Solon. All debts were cancelled, and the securing of debts upon the person of the debtor was made illegal, as in the Roman tabulae novae. See Aristot. Polit. Ath. 6; and Solon.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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