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Encyclopedia Britannica



PITTACUS

This article appears in Volume V21, Page 678 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: PIG-POL
PITTACUS , of Mytilene in Lesbos (c. 650-570 B.C.), one of the Seven Sages of
Greece
 . About 611, with the assistance of the
brothers
  of the poet
Alcaeus
 , he overthrew Melanchrus,
tyrant
  of Lesbos. In a war (6o6) between the Mytilenaeans and Athenians for the possession of Sigeum on the Hellespont he slew the Athenian
commander
  Phrynon in single combat. In 589 his fellow citizens entrusted Pittacus with despotic power (with the title of Aesymnetes) for the purpose of protecting them against the exiled nobles, at the head of whom were
Alcaeus
  and his brother Antimenides. He resigned the government after holding it for ten years, and died ten years later. According to
Diogenes
  Laertius, who credits him with an undoubtedly spurious
letter
  to 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 good," and " Know when to act."
See
Herodotus
  v. 27, 94; Diog. Laeen i. 4; Lucian, Macrobii, i8; Strabo xiii. 600, 617-618;
Aristotle
 , Politics, ii. 12, iii. 14; T. Bergk, Nettle lyrici graeci.


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