Laws of Draco

1. Politics Aristotle 1 neutral 1 citation

   book 2

   Draco's laws are reported and characterized by their severity without sustained argument for or against them.

   ) There are laws of Draco, but he legislated for an existing constitution, and there is nothing peculiar in his laws that is worthy of mention, except their severity in imposing heavy punishment.

2. Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 neutral 1 citation

   oration 80

   Draco's laws are explicitly named among competing legal codes.

   All of them squabble over the laws of Solon and Draco and Numa and Zaleucus, as to which of these, and not those, they shall follow—though none even of those lawgivers laid down what they ought.

3. Ancient Law Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation

   ch. 5

   Draco's laws are explicitly named and characterized as a comparative example.

   The fragments of the Attic Code of Solon show, however, that it had but little order, and probably the laws of Draco had even less.

4. Solon Plutarch 1 refuted 1 citation · 2 passages

   chapter 17 2 passages anchored here

   Draco's earlier law code is invoked chiefly to be rejected and replaced by Solon's more moderate legislation, apart from its homicide provisions.

   In the first place, then, he repealed the laws of Draco, all except those concerning homicide because they were too severe and their penalties too heavy.

5. Economics Xenophon 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   chapter 14 2 passages anchored here

   Draco is explicitly named as a lawgiver whose enactments support the discipline of servants.

   Nevertheless I guide the servants into the path of justice with the aid of maxims drawn from the laws of Draco and Solon.

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