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594 BC (search for this): entry dracon-bio-1
and, according to Pollux (8.125) he made the Ephetae a court of appeal from the a)/rxwn basileu/s in cases of unintentional homicide. On this latter point Richter (ad Fabric. l.c.), Schömann, and C. F. Hermann (Pol. Ant. § 103) are of opinion that Dracon established the Ephetae, taking away the cognizance of homicide entirely from the Areiopagus; while Müller thinks (Eumen. §§ 65, 66), with more probability, that the two courts were united until the legislation of Solon. From this period (B. C. 594) most of the laws of Dracon fell into disuse (Gell. l.c.; Plut. Sol. l.c.); but Andocides tells us (l.c.), that some of them were still in force at the end of the Peloponnesian war; and we know that there remained unrepealed, not only the law which inflicted death for murder, and which of course was not peculiar to Dracon's code, but that too which permitted the injured husband to slay the adulterer, if taken in the act. (Lys. de Caed. Erat. p. 94; Paus. 9.36; Xenarch. apud Athen. xiii. p.
621 BC (search for this): entry dracon-bio-1
Thasians, providing that any inanimate thing which had caused the loss of human life should be cast out of the country. (Paus. 6.11; Suid. s. v. *Ni/kwn.) From Suidas we learn that Dracon died at Aegina, being smothered by the number of hats and cloaks showered upon him as a popular mark of honour in the theatre. (Suid. s. vv. *Dra/kwn, periageiro/menoi; Kuster, ad Suid. s. v. *)Akro/drua.) His legislation is referred by general testimony to the 39th Olympiad, in the fourth year of which (B. C. 621) Clinton is disposed to place it, so as to bring Eusebius into exact agreement with the other authorities on the subject. Of the immediate occasion which led to these laws we have no account. C. F. Hermann (l.c.) and Thirlwall (Greece, vol. ii. p. 18) are of opinion, that the people demanded a written code to replace the mere customary law, of which the Eupatridae were the sole expounders; and that the latter unable to resist the demand, gladly sanctione the rigorous enactments of Dracon a