_Cyrus_ took _Babylon_, according to _Ptolomy_'s Canon, nine years before his death, _An. Nabonass._ 209, _An._ 2, Olymp. 60: and he took _Sardes_ a little before, namely _An._ 1, Olymp. 59, as _Scaliger_ collects from _Sosicrates_: _Crœsus_ was then King of _Sardes_, and Reigned fourteen years, and therefore began to Reign _An._ 3, Olymp. 55. After _Solon_ had made laws for the _Athenians_, he obliged them upon oath to observe those laws 'till he returned from his travels; and then travelled ten years, going to _Egypt_ and _Cyprus_, and visiting _Thales_ of _Miletus_: and upon His Return to _Athens_, _Pisistratus_ began to affect the Tyranny of that city, which made _Solon_ travel a second time; and now he was invited by _Crœsus_ to _Sardes_; and _Crœsus_, before _Solon_ visited him, had subdued all _Asia Minor_, as far as to the River _Halys_; and therefore he received that visit towards the latter part of his Reign; and we may place it upon the ninth year thereof, _An._ 3, Olymp. 57: and the legislature of _Solon_ twelve years earlier, _An._ 3, Olymp. 54: and that of _Draco_ still ten years earlier, _An._ 1, Olymp. 52. After _Solon_ had visited _Crœsus_, he went into _Cilicia_ and some other places, and died [130] in his travels: and this was in the second year of the Tyranny of _Pisistratus_. _Comias_ was Archon when _Solon_ returned from his first travels to _Athens_; and the next year _Hegestratus_ was Archon, and _Solon_ died before the end of the year, _An._ 3, Olymp. 57, as above: and by this reckoning the objection of _Plutarch_ above mentioned is removed.