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[2] And it is said that Solon also predicted the approaching tyranny to the Athenians in elegiac verse1:“ From cloud is born the might of snow and hail
And from bright lightning's flash the thunder comes.
And from great men a city finds its doom;
The people in their ignorance have bowed
In slavery to a monarch's single rule.
For him who puts too far from shore 'tis hard
The harbour later on to make; but now
At once one needs must think of everything.
”

1 Frag. 10 (Diehl), Edmonds, Elegy and Iambus, I, p. 122. The date was about 562 B.C.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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