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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 678 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PITTACUS , of Mytilene in See also:

LESBOS (Mytilene, Turk. Midullu)

Lesbos (c. 650-570 B.C.), one of the Seven Sages of See also:

GREECE

Greece. About 611, with the assistance of the See also:

BROTHERS, RICHARD (1757-1824)

brothers of the poet See also:

ALCAEUS (Ar earos)

Alcaeus, he overthrew Melanchrus, See also:

TYRANT (Gr. r6pavvos, master, ruler)

tyrant of Lesbos. In a See also:

war (6o6) between the Mytilenaeans and Athenians for the See also:

possession of Sigeum on the See also:

HELLESPONT (i.e. " Sea of Helle "; variously named in classical literature `EXX oirov-ros, o "EXXns a6vros, Hellespontum Pelagus, and Rectum Hellesponticum)

Hellespont he slew the Athenian See also:

COMMANDER

commander Phrynon in single combat. In 589 his See also:

FELLOW

fellow citizens entrusted Pittacus with despotic See also:

POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power (with the See also:

TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Aesymnetes) for the purpose of protecting them against the exiled nobles, at the See also:

head of whom were Alcaeus and his See also:

BROTHER

brother Antimenides. He resigned the See also:

government after holding it for ten years, and died ten years later. According to See also:

DIOGENES

Diogenes Laertius, who credits him with an undoubtedly See also:

SPURIOUS

spurious See also:

LETTER (through Fr. lettre from Lat. littera or litera, letter of the alphabet; the origin of the Latin word is obscure; it has probably no connexion with the root of linere, to smear, i.e. with wax, for an inscription with a stilus)

letter to See also:

CROESUS

Croesus (with whom his connexion was probably legendary), Pittacus was a writer of elegiac poems, from which he quotes five lines. His favourite sayings were: " It is hard to be See also:

GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good," and " Know when to See also:

ACT (Lat. actus, actum)

act." See See also:

HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus v. 27, 94; Diog. Laeen i. 4; See also:

Lucian, Macrobii, i8; See also:

STRABO (born c. 63 n.c.)

Strabo xiii. 600, 617-618; See also:

Aristotle, Politics, ii.

12, iii. 14; T. See also:

BERGK, THEODOR (1812—1881)

Bergk, See also:

NETTLE (0. Eng. netele, cf. Ger. Nessel)

Nettle lyrici graeci.

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