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Drako
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drako
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Etymology
A Hellenized spelling of en Draco. Compare en Drakon, from grc Δρᾰ́κων.
Proper noun
en Draco Athenian lawgiver.
en 1847 w:George Grote Ionic Portion of Hellas.—Athens before Solon. History of Greece III (part II (Continuation of Historical Greece)) London John Murray,Albemarle Street. 100 https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.45364/page/n114/mode/1up 889250025 Drako was the first Thesmothet who was called upon to set down his Thesmoi in writing, and thus to invest them essentially with a character of more or less generality.
en 1882 Jacob von Falke William Hand Browne Age of the Formation of States, to the Persian Wars Greece and Rome: Their Life and Art New York, N.Y. w:Henry Holt and Company 19 https://archive.org/details/gri_33125014992362/page/n48/mode/1up 3097854 Wrong and oppression at last aroused the spirit of opposition in the growing multitude of the lower classes, who began to resist the severity of the written law, and of the code of Drako.
en 1996 Joseph Michael Bryant Toward Democracy in Athens Moral Codes and Social Structure in Ancient Greece: A Sociology of Greek Ethics from Homer to the Epicureans and Stoics Albany, N.Y. State University of New York Press section 3 (Archaic Greece), subsection I (Social Structure: The Emergence of Polis Society) 68 https://archive.org/details/moralcodessocial0000brya/page/68/mode/1up 0-7914-3042-1 Within a decade of the Kylon affair, the first Athenian lawcode was written down by Drako, no doubt largely in response to the growing political unrest.
en male Draco.
en [1925] Caroline Dale Snedeker Getting used to it Theras: The Story of an Athenian Boy The Kings Treasures of Literature London; Toronto, Ont. Joseph Malaby Dent & Sons, Ltd. 102 https://archive.org/details/therasstoryofath00sneduoft/page/102/mode/1up 7874513 And that day one of the boys, Drako, gave Theras a spear—a great token of friendship.
en 1965 Peril in Mechanistria The Dr Who Annual Manchester w:World Distributors 72 https://archive.org/details/1966-annual/page/n58/mode/1up 2 1064050388 My name is Drako and I am the leader of this Haven.
en 1993 Salâhi Ramadan Sonyel The Phanariot (Fenerli) Minorities and the Destruction of the Ottoman Empire Publications of Turkish Historical Society serial VII, number 129 Ankara Turkish Historical Society Printing House chapter 2 (Period of Decline (1566-1789)), “The Greek Community” section 84 https://archive.org/details/minoritiesdestru0000sony/page/84/mode/1up 975-16-0544-X Meanwhile, the new prince Karadja was succeeded in his employment as dragoman of the Porte by Michalaki Drako Lazzo, who had acted at Istanbul as the agent of the deposed Ipsilanti. He was the brother of Drako, who was beheaded, in the same employment, during the Turco-Russian war of 1768-74.
en 2002 April Marc Cerasini A Double Life Star Wars: Anakin: Apprentice Jedi Readers; A Step 4 Book New York, N.Y. w:Random House 38 https://archive.org/details/starwars00cera_0/page/38/mode/1up 0-375-81463-9 Drako was a four-armed Codru-Ji and one of the fastest racers on the planet.
en 2008 November w:Patricia Grasso 1 Enticing the Prince Kazanov Royalty 6 New York, N.Y. w:Zebra Books 11 https://archive.org/details/enticingprince00gras/page/11/mode/1up 978-0-8217-8073-2 We will also be welcoming three of my nephew-in-law’s cousins from Moscow—Princes Drako, Lykos, and Gunter Kazanov.
en 2011 April w:Tawny Taylor 1 Darkest Fire New York, N.Y. Aphrodisia 1 https://archive.org/details/darkestfire0000tayl/page/1/mode/1up 978-0-7582-4696-7 In Drako Alexandre’s lifetime, lust had worn many masks—fair and sweet, dark and exotic, male and female—but whatever form it took, it always, without fail, seized its prey.
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eo astronomy Draco constellation
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