a. [See SOLON.] Of, pertaining to, connected with, Solon.
1843. Grote, in Class. Mus., I. 8. The mina as weight … was required to weigh 138 Solonian standard drachmæ. Ibid. The Solonian standard. Ibid. (1846), Hist. Greece, I. xiv. I. 379. About the time of the Solonian legislation at Athens.
1885. G. W. Cox, Lives Gk. Statesmen, I. 27, marg. Solonian law against neutrality in times of sedition.
1896. Greenidge, Handbk. Gk. Const. Hist., vi. 151. The permanence of these Solonian property-classes is remarkable.
So Solonic a., Solon-like; Solonian; Solonist, a wiseacre.
1607. Walkington, Opt. Glass, 65.
| Like pumpion-headed Solonists they looke, | |
| The dull earth is their contemplation booke. |
1796. Mod. Gulliver’s Trav., 102. Instead of any Solonic observations, I wrote the following address.
1888. Encycl. Brit., XXIV. 488/2. The system [of weights] … called Attic or Solonic.
