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Solon en · PROPN

Pronunciation

  • (US)
  • /ˈsoʊlən/ (US)
  • (UK)
  • /ˈsəʊlən/ (UK)

Etymology

From Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn).

Meanings

  1. An ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages (c.630-c.560 BC).
    • Now if your Majesty would have our bristles To bind your mortar with, or fill our colons With rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles, In policy—ask else your royal Solons— You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw, And sties well thatched; besides it is the law! 1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts:
    • [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon. 1976, L[ilian] H[amilton] Jeffery, “Kylon and Drakon”, in Archaic Greece: The City-States, c. 700-500 b.c., New York, N.Y.: St. Martin’s Press, →LCCN, →OCLC, section II (Central and Northern Greece), subsection 7 (Athens and Attica), page 86:
  2. A city in Iowa.
  3. A town in Somerset County, Maine.
  4. A town in New York.
  5. A city in Cuyahoga County, Ohio.

Deriveds

solon · Solonian

Translations (17)

it Solone (statesman and lawgiver) · hy Սոլոն (statesman and lawgiver) · ca Soló (statesman and lawgiver) · el Σόλωνας (statesman and lawgiver) · pl Solon (statesman and lawgiver) · ka სოლონი (statesman and lawgiver) · or ସୋଲୋନ (statesman and lawgiver) · grc Σόλων (statesman and lawgiver) · ja ソロン (statesman and lawgiver) · el Σόλων (statesman and lawgiver) · cmn 梭倫 /梭伦 (statesman and lawgiver) · ru Соло́н (statesman and lawgiver) · xcl Սողոն (statesman and lawgiver) · pt Sólon (statesman and lawgiver) · es Solón (statesman and lawgiver) · fa سولون (statesman and lawgiver) · is Sólon (statesman and lawgiver)