Moreover, in his old age he learnt to play the lyre, declaring that he saw no absurdity in learning a new accomplishment. Was a Thracian, he replied, “Nay, did you expect a man so noble to have been born of two Athenian parents?” He made Crito ransom Phaedo who, having been taken prisoner in the war, was kept in degrading slavery, and so won him for philosophy.
Himself on the Hesiodic model or Lobon may merely haveĪffirmed their existence in his treatise On Poets. aThese long poems may have been written by Lobon.Some are found to maintain that he did not go to sleep but withdrew himself b for a while, engaged in gathering simples. He is stated to have been the first who purified houses and fields, and the first who founded temples. At Athens again he founded the temple of the Eumenides, as Lobon of Argos tells us in his work On Poets. He also compiled prose works On Sacrifices and the Cretan Constitution, also On Minos and Rhadamanthus, running to about 4000 lines. He wrote a poem On the Birth of the Curetes and Corybantes and a Theogony, a 5000 lines in all another on the building of the Argo and Jason’s voyage to Colchis in 6500 lines. Of Colophon gives his age as 154, according to hearsay. According to Phlegon in his work On Longevity he lived one hundred and fifty-seven years according to the Cretans two hundred and ninety-nine years. So he returned home and soon afterwards died.
The money he declined, but he concluded a treaty of friendship and alliance between Cnossos and Athens.
The Athenians voted him a talent in money and a ship to convey him back to Crete. In consequence two young men, Cratinus and Ctesibius, were put to death and the city was delivered from the scourge.
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According to some writers he declared the plague to have been caused by the pollution which Cylon brought on the city and showed them how to remove it. Ἀλλὰ χρόνον τινὰ ἐκπατῆσαι ἀσχολούμενον περὶįound in different parts of Attica with no name inscribed upon them, which are memorials of this atonement.
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