{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0007.tlg008.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg008.local001","title":"Ποπλικόλας","titleGreek":"Ποπλικόλας","alternateTitles":[],"author":"Plutarch","authorityName":"PLUTARCHUS Biogr. et Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0007-plutarchus/","editors":["Bernadotte Perrin"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Plutarch's Lives","edition":null,"publisher":"Harvard University Press","place":"Cambridge, MA","date":"1914","volume":"1","series":"Loeb Classical Library","citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":"Available under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The National Endowment for the Humanities"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Bridget Almas","Lisa Cerrato","Rashmi Singhal"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/plutarchslives01plut2/page/502/mode/2up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plutarch. 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Plutarch's Lives, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press, 1914. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0007.tlg008.local001","excerpt":"τοιούτῳ δὴ γενομένῳ τῷ Σόλωνι τὸν Ποπλικόλαν παραβάλλομεν, ᾧ τοῦτο μὲν ὕστερον ὁ Ῥωμαίων δῆμος ἐξεῦρεν ἐπὶ τιμῇ τοὔνομα, πρὸ τοῦ δὲ Πόπλιος Οὐαλλέριος ἐκαλεῖτο, Οὐαλλερίου δοκῶν ἀπόγονος εἶναι τῶν παλαιῶν ἀνδρὸς αἰτιωτάτου γενομένου Ῥωμαίους καὶ Σαβίνους ἐκ πολεμίων ἕνα γενέσθαι δῆμον· ὁ γὰρ μάλιστα τοὺς βασιλεῖς εἰς ταὐτὸ πείσας συνελθεῖν καὶ διαλλάξας ἐκεῖνός ἐστι. τούτῳ δὴ κατὰ γένος προσήκων ὁ Οὐαλλέριος, ὥς φασι, βασιλευομένης μὲν ἔτι τῆς Ῥώμης ἐπιφανὴς ἦν διὰ λόγον καὶ πλοῦτον, ὧν τῷ μὲν ὀρθῶς καὶ μετὰ παρρησίας ἀεὶ χρώμενος ὑπὲρ τῶν δικαίων, ἀφʼ οὗ δὲ τοῖς δεομένοις ἐλευθερίως καὶ φιλανθρώπως ἐπαρκῶν, δῆλος ἦν εὐθύς, εἰ γένοιτο δημοκρατία, πρωτεύσων. ἐπεὶ δὲ Ταρκύνιον Σούπερβον οὔτε λαβόντα τὴν ἀρχήν καλῶς, ἀλλʼ ἀνοσίως καὶ παρανόμως, οὔτε χρώμενον αὐτῇ βασιλικῶς, ἀλλʼ ὑβρίζοντα καὶ τυραννοῦντα, μισῶν ὁ δῆμος καὶ βαρυνόμενος, ἀρχήν ἀποστάσεως ἔλαβε τὸ Λουκρητίας πάθος αὑτὴν ἐπὶ…","divisions":[{"label":"Chapter 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-1"},{"label":"Chapter 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-2"},{"label":"Chapter 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-3"},{"label":"Chapter 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-4"},{"label":"Chapter 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-5"},{"label":"Chapter 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-6"},{"label":"Chapter 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-7"},{"label":"Chapter 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-8"},{"label":"Chapter 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-9"},{"label":"Chapter 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-10"},{"label":"Chapter 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-11"},{"label":"Chapter 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-12"},{"label":"Chapter 13","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-13"},{"label":"Chapter 14","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-14"},{"label":"Chapter 15","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-15"},{"label":"Chapter 16","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-16"},{"label":"Chapter 17","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-17"},{"label":"Chapter 18","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-18"},{"label":"Chapter 19","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-19"},{"label":"Chapter 20","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-20"},{"label":"Chapter 21","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-21"},{"label":"Chapter 22","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-22"},{"label":"Chapter 23","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/#tlg0007-tlg008-local001-23"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0007.tlg008.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0007/tlg008/local001.json.gz"}}