Dracon

dracon Drácon English Etymology en grc Δρᾰ́κων. en Draco dracone dragon dragoon drake<id:dragon>. Proper noun en Draco Athenian lawgiver. en 1967 w:Antony Andrewes Tribes and kinship groups The Greeks The History of Human Society London Hutchinson 85 https://archive.org/details/greeks0000anth/page/85/mode/1up 957309 The archaic law of Dracon which dealt with unintentional homicide, passed over a century before Cleisthenes, but reaffirmed in 409 as the law of the state, appoints that if the dead man has no close relatives ten members of his phratry shall settle with the killer. en 1987 Ian Morris Introduction: the argument Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State New Studies in Archaeology Cambridge, Cambridgeshire w:Cambridge University Press 25 https://archive.org/details/burialancientsoc0000morr/page/25/mode/1up 0 521 32680 X A little later, perhaps c.620, Dracon drew up the first published Athenian law code. A probably trustworthy fifth-century BC copy of his homicide law survives, but the account of the ‘Draconian constitution’ given by Aristotle is almost certainly spurious. en 2014 Peter Jones Curse and Crime Eureka! Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Ancient Greeks but Were Afraid to Ask London w:Atlantic Books 2015 section IV (c. 700–593 BC: Tyranny, poetry and speculation) 91–92 https://archive.org/details/eurekaeverything0000jone/page/91/mode/1up 978-1-78239-516-4 In 620 BC the lawgiver Dracon drafted Athens’ first criminal code, and extremely draconian (i.e. severe) it was too, since Dracon argued that, as small crimes deserved the death penalty, so must big ones (his laws were ‘written in blood, not ink’, a later politician said). French Etymology fr la Dracō, itself a borrowing from fr grc Δρᾰ́κων. Pronunciation Proper noun m Draco lawmaker Derived terms fr draconien Further reading Anagrams fr conard Portuguese Proper noun m pt Dracão