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with the forfeiture of sight. When his own son was condemned of this, he refused to exonerate him, instead submitting to the loss of one of his own eyes instead of exacting the full penalty of the culprit. Another law that he established forbade anyone from entering the Senate House armed. Faced with
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A free-born woman may not be accompanied by more than one female slave, unless she is drunk; she may not leave the city during the night, unless she is an adulteress; she may not wear gold jewelry or a garment with a purple border, unless she is a courtesan; and a husband may not wear a gold-studded
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Most probably, he devised the first written European law code, the Locrian code, in the 7th century BC. The code, however, is lost except for some later mentions and imitations which seem clearly anachronistic. These, which among other things mention that:
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it's a law, that a man who shall propose to make any new law shall do it with a rope about his neck, which he shall be strangled in, if he do not carry his point: which has been such a guard and defence to the laws, that there has been but one new one made
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Anyone who proposed a new law, or the alteration of one already existing, had to appear before the Citizen's Council with a rope round his neck. If the Council voted against the proposal the proposer was immediately strangled.
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Although the Locrian code distinctly favored the aristocracy, Zaleucus was famous for his conciliation of societal factions. No other facts of his life at all are certain. According to legends, he punished
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MORE THAN TWO HUNDRED YEARS. (Demost. in Timocr. p. 469.) Now. that Demosthenes here speaks of Zaleucus's laws is plain enough from his naming the Locrians; but it appears further from the law itself. For
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p.449: All that is known from classical sources about the laws of Zaleucus and Charondas will be found towards the end of Bentley's Dissertation upon Phalaris. ('Works', i. 376-417.)
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This anecdote is cited by Edward Gibbon in his discussion of the origin of Roman jurisprudence and of the
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an emergency, he did so anyway, but when he was reminded of the law, he immediately fell upon his
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as a sacrifice to the sovereignty of the claims of social order. A similar story is told of
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Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic Communities
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ring or a cloak of Milesian fashion unless he is bent upon prostitution or adultery.
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The works of Richard Bentley, collected and ed. by A. Dyce
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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
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Promptuarii Iconum Insigniorum
Ancient Greek
Greek
Epizephyrian Locris
Magna Graecia
Suda
shepherd
Pythagorean philosopher
wine
adultery
sword
Charondas
Demosthenes
Against Timocrates
Hierocles
Polybius's
Hieroc. apud Stobaeum, Serm. 37
Aristotle
Diodorus Siculus
Charondas
Primitive Civilizations: Or, Outlines of the History of Ownership in Archaic Communities
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Suda Encyclopedia, § zeta.12


The works of Richard Bentley, collected and ed. by A. Dyce
"Diodorus Siculus, Library 12.21", Demosthenes Against Timocrates 139–43

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