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Aristotle, Athenian Constitution (ed. H. Rackham), chapter 14 (search)
Peisistratus, being thought to be an extreme advocate of the people, and having won great fame in the war against Megara,Perhaps the hostilities that ended in the Athenians' capture of Nisaea about 570 B.C. inflicted a wound on himself with his own hand and then gave out that it had been done by the members of the opposite factions, and so persuaded the people to give him a bodyguard, the resolution being proposed by Aristophon. He was given the retainers called Club-bearers, and with their aid he rose against the people and seized the Acropolis, in the thirty-second year after the enactment of his laws, in the archonship of Comeas.
It is said that when Peisistratus asked for the guard Solon opposed the request, and said that he was wiser than some men and braver than others—he was wiser than those who did not know that Peisistratus was aiming at tyranny, and braver than those who knew it but held their tongues. But as he failed to carry them with him by saying thi