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CHARONDAS , a celebrated lawgiver of Catina in See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily. His date is uncertain. Some make him a See also:

PUPIL (Lat. pupillus, orphan, minor, dim. of pupus, boy, allied to puer, from root pm- or peu-, to beget, cf. "pupa," Lat. for " doll," the name given to the stage intervening between the larval and imaginal stages in certain insects)

pupil of See also:

Pythagoras (c. 580–504 B.c.) ; but all that can be said is that he was earlier than Anaxilaus of Rhegium (494–476), since his See also:

LAWS

laws were in use amongst the Rhegians until they were abolished by thattyrant. His laws, originally written in See also:

VERSE (from Lat. versus, literally a line or furrow drawn by turning the plough, from vertere, and afterwards signifying an arrangement of syllables into feet)

verse, were adopted by the other Chalcidic colonies in Sicily and See also:

Italy. According to See also:

Aristotle there was nothing See also:

SPECIAL

special about these laws, except that Charondas introduced actions for See also:

PERJURY (through the Anglo-Fr. perjurie, modern parjure, Lat. perjurium, a false oath, perjurare, to swear falsely)

perjury; but he speaks highly of the precision with which they were See also:

DRAWN

drawn up (Politics, ii. 12). The See also:

story that Charondas killed himself because he entered the public See also:

ASSEMBLY, UNLAWFUL

assembly wearing a See also:

SWORD (0. Eng. sweord; ultimately from an Indo-European root meaning to wound)

sword, which was a violation of his own See also:

law, is also told of Diocles and See also:

ZALEUCUS

Zaleucus (Diod. Sic. xii. 11-19). The fragments of laws attributed to him by See also:

STOBAEUS, JOANNES

Stobaeus and Diodorus are of See also:

LATE

late (neo-See also:

PYTHAGOREAN

Pythagorean) origin. See See also:

Bentley, On See also:

PHALARIS

Phalaris, which (according to B.

Niese s.v. in Pauly, Realencyclopadie) contains what is even now the best See also:

account of Charondas; A. Holm, Geschichte Siciliens, i.; F. D. Gerlach, Zaleukos, Charondas, and Pythagoras (1858); also See also:

art. See also:

GREEK LAW.

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