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What does Solon mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Solon? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. An ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages (c.630-c.560 BC).
  2. A city in Iowa.
  3. A town in Maine.
  4. A town in New York.
  5. A city in Ohio.
Name
  1. A male given name of Greek origin.
    1. (meaning, history) The wise one.
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Between the eupatrid oligarchy and the rule of Peisistratus there comes the timocracy of Solon.
Solon was the founder of democracy in ancient Greece.
In his role as archon, Solon cancelled all agricultural debts and announced that all slaves were free.
After enacting his laws, Solon bought a vessel and went away for ten years.
In Egypt, Solon would have met a priest who would have revealed the existence to him, 9000 years earlier, of an island: Atlantis.
Solon is an unpleasant little cantonment, but it has the advantage of being cool and healthy.

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