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Example sentences for: solon

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Armed with almost absolute powers, Solon produced a constitution advancing the ideal of equality before the law for citizens of all classes, set up a trial-by-jury system, freed the peasantry from debt to landowners, and introduced far-sighted reforms that revived the languishing economy.
The first great historical figure of that new era was Solon — general, merchant, poet, and sage — who in 594 b.c. became chief magistrate.
-- Bob Solon Indianapolis