Solon
['sɔlən;-lɔn]
Definition
(n.) A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
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Examples
- You remember what the Egyptian priest said to Solon,—'You Greeks are always children. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- You are a modern Solon! Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Induced by these feelings, I was of course led to admire peaceable law-givers, Numa, Solon, and Lycurgus, in preference to Romulus and Theseus. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- The Solon of an unnoticed island, replied Justinian, with a smile. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Solon is supposed to have practiced it; and even Lycurgus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Is there any city which professes to have received laws from you, as Sicily and Italy have from Charondas, Sparta from Lycurgus, Athens from Solon? Plato. The Republic.
- Italy and Sicily boast of Charondas, and there is Solon who is renowned among us; but what city has anything to say about you? Plato. The Republic.
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