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Draco

noun

Athenian lawmaker whose code of laws prescribed death for almost every offense (circa 7th century BC).

A faint constellation twisting around the north celestial pole and lying between Ursa Major and Cepheus. Synonym: Dragon.

A reptile genus known as flying dragons or flying lizards. Synonym: genus Draco.

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... who considers attentively the aspect of the constellation Draco in the heavens, will perceive that the drawing of the head in the maps is not correct; the head is no longer pictured as it must have been conceived by those who first formed the constellation. The two ...

— Myths and Marvels of Astronomy • Richard A. Proctor

... 1520, on one of those journeys on which he gathered his famous library, received at Louvain a copy of Erasmus' Antibarbari, with his name inscribed in it by the author. A visitor to whom we must pay more heed was John Draco, one of the Erfurt circle, who in July 1520 came to ...

— The Age of Erasmus - Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London • P. S. Allen

... apparel, is treading that path which has led thousands to consumption? Yes, too often are these guilty practices indulged in merely from the bondage of fashion. Not only are parental voices unheeded, but personal convictions are silenced, rather than violate its Draco-like laws. ...

— The Young Maiden • A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey

... them, yet is there likewise devilry in the school; and everywhere over earth a summary punishment that does not sweep the place clear is likely to infect whom it leaves remaining. The great law-givers, Lycurgus, Draco, Solon, Beamish, sorrowfully acknowledge that they have had recourse to infernal agents, after they have thus purified their circle of an offender. Doctors confess to the same of their physic. The ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... batteries and ships as might be found convenient. This would prevent a junction, and might give an opportunity of bombarding Copenhagen. Or to take the passage of the Belt, which might be accomplished in four or five days; and then the attack by Draco might be made, and the junction of the Russians prevented. Supposing them through the Belt, he proposed that a detachment of the fleet should be sent to destroy the Russian squadron at Revel; and that the business at Copenhagen should be attempted with ...

— The Life of Horatio Lord Nelson • Robert Southey

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