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Crossword-Solution: SOLON 5 letters, 90 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

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Solon n. A celebrated Athenian lawmaker, born about 638 b. c.; hence,
a legislator; a publicist; -- often used ironically.

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SOLON anagram LOONS, NOLOS, OLSON, SNOOL

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Lawgiver of old Athens 1 answer
One of the Seven Sages. 1 answer
One of the Seven Sages of Greece 1 answer
One of the "Seven Wise Men of Greece" 1 answer
One of Greece's Seven Wise Men 1 answer
One of Greece's Seven Sages 1 answer
Noted Athenian. 1 answer
Nomothetes 1 answer
Name synonymous with wisdom. 1 answer
Lawmaker of old Athens 1 answer
Lawmaker of Athens 1 answer
Lawgiver who repealed the vast majority of Draco's... well, draconian laws 1 answer
One of the Seven Wise Men 1 answer
Lawgiver of old 1 answer
Lawgiver of Athens 1 answer
Lawgiver Ancient 1 answer
Law giver 1 answer
Greek people lawgiver 1 answer
Greek legist 1 answer
Greek lawmaker 1 answer
Great Athenian statesman 1 answer
Eponymous legislator 1 answer
Early Athenian democrat 1 answer
Wise Greek lawgiver 1 answer
lawgiver Greek people 1 answer
Wise, skillful lawgiver 1 answer
Wise statesman 1 answer
Wise legislator of old 1 answer
Wise legislator 1 answer
Wise lawyer 1 answer
Wise lawmaker 1 answer
Wise lawgiver 1 answer
Wise Lawgiver Ancient 1 answer
Wise Greek statesman 1 answer
Democrat of ancient days. 1 answer
Wise Athenian statesman 1 answer
Wise Athenian lawgiver 1 answer
Statesman of old Athens 1 answer
Statesman celebrated by Herodotus 1 answer
Skillful lawmaker 1 answer
Skillful lawgiver 1 answer
Senator, for one 1 answer
Senator of old. 1 answer
Sagacious lawgiver 1 answer
One of the Seven Wise Men of ancient Greece 1 answer
Athenian statesman and poet 1 answer
Athenian sage 1 answer
Athenian reformer 1 answer
Athenian lawman 1 answer
Athenian lawgiver who introduced trial by jury 1 answer
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with SOLON (5)

That is what we mean by the Code." Solon spoke English with Teutonic precision and a mild lilt that gave his accented words additional credibility.
Terminal Compromise Winn Schwartau 1993
This mythical tale, of which the subject was a history of the wars of the Athenians against the Island of Atlantis, is supposed to be founded upon an unfinished poem of Solon, to which it would have stood in the same relation as the writings of the logographers to the poems of Homer.
Plato's Republic Plato 2008
After the captivity of Babylon, Nehemiah, the chief of the Jewish nation, abolished debts; Lycurgus abolished debts; Solon abolished debts; the Roman people, after the expulsion of the kings until the accession of the Caesars, struggled with the Senate for the abolition of debts.
What is Property? P. J. Proudhon 1995
For Solon said well to Croesus (when in ostentation he showed him his gold), Sir, if any other come, that hath better iron, than you, he will be master of all this gold.
Essays Francis Bacon 1996
The change which the ideas concerning womanhood underwent from the time when the natural feminine characters and qualities were worshipped as God, to the days of Solon the Grecian law-giver, when women had become merely tools or slaves for the use and pleasure of men, is forcibly shown by a comparison of the character ascribed to the female deities at the two epochs mentioned.
The God-Idea of the Ancients Eliza Burt Gamble 1996

Quotes with SOLON (3)

He hoped and feared,' continued Solon, in a low. mournful voice; 'but at times he was very miserable, because he did not think it possible that so much happiness was reserved for him as the love of this beautiful, innocent girl. At night, when he was in bed, and all the world was dreaming, he lay awake looking up at the old books against the walls, thinking how he could bring about the charming of her heart. One night, when he was thinking of this, he suddenly found himself i…
Fitz-James O'Brien Terror by Gaslight: More Victorian Tales of Terror
America acknowledged the greatness of Confucius through a trio of ancient lawgivers — Moses flanked by Confucius to his right and Solon on his left — on the monument to “Justice, the Guardian of Liberty” displayed on the eastern pediment of the U.S. Supreme Court Building in Washington, D.C.
Patrick Mendis Peaceful War: How the Chinese Dream and the American Destiny Create a New Pacific World Order
Like Solon, Plato intended to write a long fable about legendary Atlantis; like Solon, he never did write it. Yet there existed beyond the Atlantic an unvisited land, after all, and it is more strange than any of Plato's myths that Plato's apprehension of order and justice should be a living influence among the people of that land, twenty-four centuries after the mystical philosopher's soul departed from Athens.
Russell Kirk The Roots of American Order
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Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, Daily Beast, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.

Used 133 times in crossword archives (1942–2020).