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CHARONDAS

Volume 5 · 57 words · 1815 Edition

celebrated legislator of the Thracians, and a native of Catanea, in Sicily, flourished 446 before Christ. He forbade any person's appearing armed in the public assemblies of the nation; but one day going thither in haste, without thinking of his sword, he was no sooner made to observe his mistake than he ran it through his body.