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Solon|ˈsəʊlən|
[a. L. Solōn, Gr. σόλων, the early Athenian legislator and one of the seven sages of Greece.]
A sage; a wiseacre. Also (with lower-case initial) in the U.S., in weakened sense: a legislator, congressman.
1625B. Jonson Staple of N. ii. iii, Your graue great Solons. 1820Shelley Œd. Tyr. i. 64 Ask else your royal Solons. 1840Thackeray Jolly Jack, When village Solons cursed the Lords. 1903‘O. Henry’ Art & Bronco in Ainslee's Feb. 59/1 The season of activity and profit that the congregation of the solons bestowed. The boarding houses were corralling the easy dollars of the gamesome lawmakers. 1948E. Pound Pisan Cantos (1949) lxxxiv. 128 Thus the Solons, in Washington. 1959New Scientist 29 Jan. 230/3 Congress was not in session at the time of the AAAS meeting... But the solons are back in the Capitol now. 1976National Observer (U.S.) 21 Aug. 11/2 The great national political community of solons, scribes, police⁓men, [etc.]. |