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with their policies presumably,
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and their different leaders all struggling
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for power and sufficiently equal in strength,
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so that nobody could come out on top.
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Out of this, and by the way, when Solon comes home
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and the situation is as unsatisfactory as I've described,
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Solon becomes particularly worried about Peisistratus
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whom he has spotted as potential tyrant,
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and he goes out and he warns the people against Peisistratus,
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but the fact of the matter is,
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he fails and his warnings and his predictions turn out to be accurate,
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as Peisistratus does bring about tyranny