Solon — English Dictionary

Proper noun

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

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   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!

   [T]he law codes drafted in Athens in the late seventh and early sixth centuries were the work of individuals, Drakon and then Solon.

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.