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Little is known about his life.

He may have belonged to the Greek nobility of the Attica deme called the Eupatridae, with which the 10th-century Suda text records him as contemporaneous, prior to the period of the Seven Sages of Greece.

It also relates a folkloric story of his death in the Aeginetan theatre.

In a traditional ancient Greek show of approval, his supporters " threw so many hats and shirts and cloaks on his head that he suffocated, and was buried in that same theatre ".