SOLOMON’S SONG

See CanTICLES. statesman and one of Seven Sages of Greece; of noble family but reduced by poverty to trade; wrote poems; recovered Salamis from Megara; proposed internal reforms and was elected archon c. 594 to carry them out. Chief reforms (of which there is no contemporary record) were: repeal of laws by which person of debtor might be sold and his land seized; reconstitution of A then i an society into Pentacosiomedimni (whose lands produced 500 measures of corn and oil), Hippeis (whose lands produced 300 measures), Zeugitae (200 measures) Thetae (le than 200); archon and treasurer chosen from Pentacosiomedimni but election and trial of magistrates was given to entire population; establishment of Council of Four Hundred (Boulé), ete.