Pisistratidae
Americanplural noun
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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 Morris, Kenneth
Lastly, a clause was annexed, that "all the decrees, formerly passed against the Pisistratidae, should be in full force against Philip."
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
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 Douglas, Norman
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 Botta, Anne C. Lynch
In an Egyptian papyrus containing a fragment of Julius Africanus, a Christian chronologer, Mr. Allen finds him talking confidently of the Pisistratidae.
From Homer and His Age by Lang, Andrew
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