LIFE OF ALCAEUS

Athens for the possession of the Achilleid (or district
of Sigeum in the Troad), he was in command on the
one side and the Olympian champien Phrynon on
the other. The two generals coming to single

combat, Pittacus enveloped his antagonist unawares
in a net which he carried under his shield, and
killed him, thus saving the district for Mvytilene.
Later. however. if we may believe the Chronicles of
Apollederus. it became the subject of arbitration
between the two cities. and Periander. who acted as
judge, awarded it to Athens. However that may
be, Pittacus was highly honoured thereatter by his
countrymen, and made head of the state. After
holding office ten vears, during which he brought
order into the administration, he resigned it and
lived for ten years more as a private citizen?

Diogenes Laertius Lives of the Philosophers :
According to Heracleitus, when Alcaeus fell into his
hands Pittacus set him at liberty with the words
‘ Forgiveness is better than punishment.’

The Same: Pittacus ... died in the archonship
of Aristomenes. the third year of the 52nd Olympiad
(n.c. 570), at the age of over seventy.

Eusebius Chromcle: Olympiad 46. 2 (8... 505
Flourished the poets Sappho and Aleacus.*

Athenaeus Doctors af Dinner [on drinking-songs] :
Compare what Aristophanes says in the Banqueters,
* Take and sing me a drinking- song of Aleaeus or
Anacreon.’

T set lwlow oon fr. 160 5 εὖ, Suid. on Sappho p. 145