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One very severe. Draco was an Athenian law-maker. As every violation of a law was made in this code a capital offence, Demaʹdēs the orator said “that Draco’s code was written in human blood.”
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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