Definition of "Solon"

Solon

/ˈsəʊlən/

proper noun
1. An ancient Athenian statesman and lawgiver, one of the Seven Sages (c.630-c.560 BC).
  Quotations
  Now if your Majesty would have our bristlesTo bind your mortar with, or fill our colonsWith rich blood, or make brawn out of our gristles,In policy—ask else your royal Solons—You ought to give us hog-wash and clean straw,And sties well thatched; besides it is the law!
  1820, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Oedipus Tyrannus; Or, Swellfoot The Tyrant: A Tragedy in Two Acts
2. A city in Iowa.
3. A town in Maine.
4. A town in New York.
5. A city in Ohio.