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and their neighbors near Eleusis
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he came to the assistance of his countrymen,
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routed the foe and died upon the field most gallantly.
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The Athenians gave him a public funeral on the spot
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where he fell and paid him the highest honors.
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So, to summarize, the happiest, the most fortunate man
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that Solon ever knew
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was a dead Athenian that nobody ever heard of.
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Why? What does this say?
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Right, we see in this passage something
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that reveals so much about what the Greek values were
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and you'll see how closely they were tied up