Solon

An ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages (c.630-c.560 BC).

Proper noun

  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...
    • [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...
  2. A city in Iowa.
  3. A town in Somerset County, Maine.
  4. A town in New York.
  5. A city in Ohio.

Origin

From Ancient Greek Σόλων (Sólōn).

Derived

solon Solonian