Add to ORKGSolon’s Fr. 19 W2 is a farewell elegy in which a non-identified speaker to the king of the Cyprian city of Soloi. In the discourse, a xénosis leaving to his homeland after being with the king as his guest, we may suppose. Setting a tone of praise and gratefulness to his words, he brings forward two key-ideas to the archaic Greek world: xenía(the laws of hospitality) and reciprocity. And by an indirect address to Aphrodite – here, as rarely in archaic Greek poetry, represented as a sea goddess that watches over travelers and ships –, he gives the speech solemnity and a prayer quality. This tableau that raises the subject of Solon’s famous yet obscure travels will be herein studied in an approach that will take into consideration in the analy...