Pisistratidae
Americanplural noun
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Indeed, I doubt the original existence of the 'Iliad' as one poem; it seems more probable that it was put together about the time of the Pisistratidae.
From Literary Remains, Volume 1 by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Many persons also indulge this passion through contempt; which occasioned the fall of the Pisistratidae and many others.
From Politics: A Treatise on Government by William Ellis
Solon, Pisistratus, or one of the Pisistratidae, determined that you should be, not a vague tradition and wandering songs any longer, but the Bible of the Hellenes.
From The Crest-Wave of Evolution A Course of Lectures in History, Given to the Graduates' Class in the Raja-Yoga College, Point Loma, in the College-Year 1918-19 by Kenneth Morris
This was in the same fateful year 510 that witnessed the expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome and the Pisistratidae from Athens.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
After Solon came the dominion of the Pisistratidae, which lasted from about 560 to 510 B.C.
From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Anne C. Lynch Botta
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