ul but the other
useless.）There are laws
of Draco,Author of the first written code at
Athens, 621 B.C. （though in Aristot. Ath. Pol. 4, his legislation is hardly mentioned; he
appears there as the framer of the constitution）. but he
legislated for an existing constitution, and there is nothing peculiar in his
laws that is worthy of mention, except their severity in imposing heavy
punishment. PittacusOf Mitylene in Lesbos, one of the Seven Sages, dictator 589-579 B.C. also was a framer
of laws, but not of a constitution; a special law of his is that if men commit
any offence when drunk,they are to
pay a larger fine than those who offend when sober; because since more men are
insolent when drunk than when sober he had regard not to the view that drunken
offenders are to be shown more mercy, but to expediency. AndrodamasOtherwise unknown. of Rhegium also became lawgiver to the
Chalcidians in the direction of Thrace,Chal<
eight.Alcaeus Fr. 33 （Bergk）And along with these flourished also Sappho, a marvellous woman; for in all the time of which we have record I do not know of the appearance of any woman who could rival Sappho, even in a slight degree, in the matter of poetry. The city was in those times ruled over by several tyrants because of the dissensions among the inhabitants; and these dissensions are the subject of the StasioticSeditious. poems, as they are called, of Alcaeus. And also PittacusReigned 589-579 B.C. was one of the tyrants. Now Alcaeus would rail alike at both Pittacus and the rest, Myrsilus and Melanchrus and the Cleanactidae and certain others, though even he himself was not innocent of revolutionary attempts; but even Pittacus himself used monarchy for the overthrow of the oligarchs, and then, after overthrowing them, restored to the city its independence. Diophanes the rhetorician was born much later; but Potamon, Lesbocles, Crinagoras, and Theophanes the historian in my