Draco
historical figure · 12 works · 13 mentions · 14 anchored passages
in the texts
Ancient Law
Athenian lawgiver credited with an early code of laws.
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.
The traditions which speak of the sanguinary penalties inflicted by the code of Draco seem to indicate that it had the same characteristic.
Against Timarchus
An early Athenian lawgiver named alongside Solon as an author of the ancestral laws on morality.
Consider, fellow citizens, how much attention that ancient lawgiver, Solon, gave to morality, as did Draco and the other lawgivers of those days.
On the Mysteries
Athenian lawgiver whose statutes are cited as part of the old legal code.
—On the motion of Teisamenus the People decreed that Athens be governed as of old, in accordance with the laws of Solon, his weights and his measures, and in accordance with the statutes of Draco, which we used aforetime.
during the interval the code of Solon and the statutes of Draco were to be in force.
Constitution of the Athenians
Early Athenian lawgiver whose ordinances preceded Solon's and were repealed except for homicide law.
He established a constitution and laid down other laws, and they ceased to use Draco's ordinances except those concerning homicide.
Not much time afterward, in the archonship of Aristaechmus, Draco laid down his ordinances;
The Council of the Areopagus was guardian of the laws and watched over the magistrates, that they might govern according to the laws.
On the Commonwealth
Athenian lawgiver cited among those who reshaped Athens's constitution
because in those others there had generally been single men, each of whom had established his own commonwealth by his laws and institutions—as Minos among the Cretans, Lycurgus among the Lacedaemonians, and among the Athenians, whose constitution had very often been changed, now Theseus, now Draco, now Solon, now Cleisthenes, now many others;
Stromata
Athenian lawgiver dated to about the thirty-ninth Olympiad.
Draco too, himself a lawgiver, is found to have lived about the thirty-ninth Olympiad.
Against Aristocrates
Athenian lawgiver credited with the cited homicide statute on exiles returning illegally.
This statute, men of Athens, like all the other excerpts from the law of homicide which I have cited for comparison, is a statute of Draco;
Against Evergus and Mnesibulus
The named lawgiver whose homicide laws are consulted on an inscribed slab.
When I had received this advice from the Interpreters and had looked at the laws of Draco on the inscribed slab, I consulted with my friends as to what course of action I should pursue.
Against Leptines
Athenian lawgiver cited for homicide law.
Now Draco, in this group of laws, marked the terrible wickedness of homicide by banning the offender from the lustral water, the libations, the loving-cup, the sacrifices and the market-place;
Against Timocrates
An Athenian lawgiver invoked as a benchmark for proper statutes.
If you are justified in praising Solon and Draco, although you can credit neither of them with any public service except that they enacted beneficial and well-conceived statutes, it is surely right that you should visit men whose enactments are contrary to the spirit of those lawgivers with indignation and chastisement.
Orations
Athenian lawgiver known for harsh laws, named among lawgivers whose codes people dispute over.
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.
Economics
Athenian lawgiver invoked as an authority for anti-theft penalties.
Nevertheless I guide the servants into the path of justice with the aid of maxims drawn from the laws of Draco and Solon.