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| Zaleucus (fl. 7th century BC) was the Greek lawgiver of Epizephyrian Locri, in Italy, said to have devised the first written Greek law code (Locrian code). 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 adultery with the forfeiture of... Read enhanced Wikipedia article |
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Zaleucus
Zaleucus (Ancient Greek: Ζάλευκος; fl. 7th century BC) was the Greek lawgiver of Epizephyrian Locri, in Italy, said to have devised the first written Greek law code (Locrian code). -
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Thaumastochelidae
The family Thaumastochelidae contains five known species of deep-sea lobsters, three in the genus Thaumastocheles, and two in the genus Thaumastochelopsis. ... Thaumastocheles zaleucus Thomson, 1873, the "Atlantic pincer lobster" or "Atlantic deep-sea lobster", is endemic to the Caribbean region. -
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Aprostocetus
Aprostocetus is a genus of hymenopteran insects of the family Eulophidae. ... A. zaleucus - Tasmania -
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Boston Brigade Band
The Boston Brigade Band (1821-ca.1863) was a brass and reed band that performed frequently in Boston, Massachusetts and elsewhere in New England. ... Composed and arranged for the pianoforte by Zaleucus." -
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Charondas
Charondas (Greek Χαρώνδας), a celebrated lawgiver of Catania in Sicily. ... The story that Charondas killed himself because he entered the public assembly wearing a sword, which was a violation of his own law, is also told of Diodes of Syracuse and Zaleucus (Diod. Sic. 12.19.1-2). -
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Sumptuary law
Le Courtisan suivant le Dernier Édit by Abraham Bosse depicts a French courtier casting aside his lace, ribbons and slashed sleeves in favor of sober dress in accordance with the Edict of 1633. ... He also cites Plato and Zaleucus. -
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Roman Catholic Diocese of Locri-Gerace
The Italian Catholic diocese of Locri-Gerace is in Calabria. ... Gerace probably owes its origin, or at least its importance, to the ruin of the town of Locri Epizephyrii, one of the earliest Greek colonies in Lower Italy, founded by the Ozolian Locrians (684-680 B.C.) and endowed with a code of laws by Zaleucus. -
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Aesymnetes
Aesymnetes (Greek: αισυμνήτης, from αίσα, aisa, a "just portion", hence "a person who gives everyone his just portion") was the name of an ancient Greek elected office similar to, and sometimes indistinguishable from, tyrant.... ... There were, however, no doubt many other persons who ruled under this title for a while in the various states of Greece, and those law-givers bore a strong resemblance to the aesymnetai, whom their fellow citizens appointed with supreme power to enact laws, as Dracon, Solon, Zaleucus and Charondas. -
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Locri
Locri is a town and comune (municipality) in the province of Reggio Calabria, Calabria, southern Italy. ... Its renowned lawgiver Zaleucus decreed that anyone who proposed a change in the laws should do so with a noose about their neck, with which they should be hanged if the amendment did not pass. -
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List of Atlantic decapod species
This is a list of decapod crustaceans found in the North and South Atlantic Oceans. ... Thaumastocheles zaleucus
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