Crossword clues for solon
solon
- Senator, for one
- Legislator
- Nomothetes
- Cheerio having to lose good old statesman
- Ancient Athenian statesman
- Wise Greek
- Famous Athenian
- Athenian lawman
- Wise Athenian statesman
- Wise Athenian lawgiver
- Skillful lawmaker
- Lawgiver of old Athens
- Ancient Athenian lawmaker
- Wise, skillful lawgiver
- Wise statesman
- Statesman celebrated by Herodotus
- Sagacious lawgiver
- One of the Seven Wise Men
- One of the Seven Sages
- Lawmaker of Athens
- Lawgiver of old
- Greek sage
- Early Athenian who laid the groundwork for democracy
- Athenian reformer
- Wise guy
- Athenian statesman and poet
- Wise one
- Wise lawgiver
- Wise lawmaker
- Sage
- Athenian lawgiver who introduced trial by jury
- Early Athenian democrat
- Wise old head
- One of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece
- Ancient lawgiver
- Wise old Athenian
- Statesman of old Athens
- One of the Seven Sages of Greece
- Wise man
- A man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs
- Greek legist
- Lawmaker of old Athens
- Lawgiver of Athens
- One of Greece's Seven Wise Men
- Thesmothete
- Wise legislator of old
- Great Athenian statesman
- Publicist
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Solon \So"lon\, n. A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence, a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"legislator," 1620s, from Greek Solon, name of early lawgiver of Athens, one of the seven sages. Often, especially in U.S., applied (with perhaps a whiff of sarcasm) by journalists to Congressmen, township supervisors, etc. It also is a useful short headline word.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A wise legislator or lawgiver. 2 Any legislator.
WordNet
n. a man who is a respected leader in national or international affairs [syn: statesman, national leader]
Gazetteer
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Land area (2000): 20.551672 sq. miles (53.228584 sq. km)
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FIPS code: 72928
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 41.389871 N, 81.442330 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 44139
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Total area (2000): 1.326864 sq. miles (3.436562 sq. km)
FIPS code: 73875
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Location: 41.806717 N, 91.495938 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 52333
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Wikipedia
Solon (; BC) was an Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet. He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens. His reforms failed in the short term, yet he is often credited with having laid the foundations for Athenian democracy. He wrote poetry for pleasure, as patriotic propaganda, and in defense of his constitutional reforms.
Modern knowledge of Solon is limited by the fact that his works only survive in fragments and appear to feature interpolations by later authors, and by the general paucity of documentary and archaeological evidence covering Athens in the early 6th century BC. Ancient authors such as Herodotus and Plutarch are the main source of information, yet they wrote about Solon long after his death, at a time when history was by no means an academic discipline. Fourth century orators, such as Aeschines, tended to attribute to Solon all the laws of their own, much later times.
Solon (c. 638 BC–558 BC) was a pre-Socratic Athenian statesman, lawmaker, and poet.
Solon may also refer to:
- Solon SE, a German solar energy company
- Solon people, a subgroup of the Evenks living in Northeastern China
- Solon language, a dialect of the Evenki language spoken by the Solon people
Usage examples of "solon".
But Little Arcady knows that Solon is loyal to its welfare--knows that he is fit to wield the mightiest lever of Civilization in its behalf on Wednesday of each week.
Billy also brought two messages to Solon: one from Potts that he had been mistaken about the attitude of Little Arcady toward himself--that he was seeing this more clearly every minute.
That Little Arcady was unequal to this broader view, however, was to be inferred from comments made in the hearing of and often, in truth, meant for the ears of Solon Denney.
In ways devoid of his own vaunted subtlety, it was conveyed to Solon that Little Arcady expected him to do something.
Persian War, tells a story of how Croesus, the richest and most-favored king of his time, asked Solon the Athenian a leading question.
The liviecaster misidentified one being, but Ecu knew him well: Solon Kenna.
Among the laws of Solon is a regulation decreeing that the Senate shall convene in the Eleusinian temple, the day after the festival, to inquire whether every thing had been done with reverence and propriety.
Comme Solon, elle cache un grand dessein sous son apparente folie: elle veut dicter des lois et gouverner.
I, Hugo Artemis Solon Saturnicus Reginald Arthur Rune, Magus to the Hermetic Order of the Golden Sprout, Twelfth Dan Grand Master of the deadly art of Dimac, Logos of the Aeon, Lord of the Dance, King of the Jungle, snake-charmer, unicyclist, three-way cross-channel swimmer, Mr Lover Lover, Wild Colonial Boy, and one Hell of a Holy Guru, being of the soundest mind ever lodged within the human form and signed in my own hand in the presence of His Royal Highness, Prince Albert Saxe Coburg Gothe, and our most Regal Majesty Victoria.
Solon correctly blamed not Pisistratus but the Athenians for the rise of the tyrant.
Egyptian priests to Solon, as to the glory and greatness of Atlantis, its monuments, its sculpture, its laws, its religion, its civilization?
I will tell you the reason of this: Solon, who was intending to use the tale for his poem, made an investigation into the meaning of the names, and found that the early Egyptians, in writing them down, had translated them into their own language, and be recovered the meaning of the several names and retranslated them, and copied them out again in our language.
As the president of the Council of Solons and the power behind Tyrenne Walsh, he had a great deal to lose if there were any miscalculations.
The great law-givers, Lycurgus, Draco, Solon, Beamish, sorrowfully acknowledge that they have had recourse to infernal agents, after they have thus purified their circle of an offender.
Solon, the Athenian famous for his lawgiving, who also instituted the steamiest cathouse in history.