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Σολίων. Soli was believed to be an Athenian Colony (Strabo 683; Plut. Solon 26). The visit of Solon to Soli, and the rebuilding of the city on the plain instead of on the height (αἰπεῖα), is recorded in one of his elegies addressed to Philocyprus (Plut. Solon 26): νῦν δὲ σὺ μὲν Σολίοισι πολὺν χρόνον ἐνθάδ᾽ ἀνάσσων τήνδε πόλιν ναίοις καὶ γένος ὑμέτερον. Solon's visit is traditionally dated circ. 590-580 B. C., and cannot have been later than 560 B. C. It is therefore remarkable that a son of his friend should still be on the throne and killed in battle in 497 B. C.

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