英语词汇draconian的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

draconian. “The Draconian Code is written in blood,” one Greek orator declared, and Plutarch observed that under Draco’s code “for nearly all crimes there is the penalty of death.” They referred to the severe laws—now largely lost— codified and promulgated by the Athenian legislator Draco about 621 b.c. Draco was the first to collect Athens’s unwrit- ten laws, but his assignment wasn’t to modify them and he is therefore not really responsible for their proverbial harshness. The written Draconian Code proved valuable because it sub- stituted public justice for vendettas and made it impossible for magistrates to side openly with the nobility. Its severity may have been exaggerated by future generations. Draco’s laws, except for those dealing with homicide, were abolished or ameliorated by the wise Solon 30 years later, but they were so harsh, or thought to be so harsh, that the word draconian remains a synonym for “severe” and draconian laws still means any code of laws or set of rules calling for ironhanded punishment of violators.

词汇	draconian
词源	draconian. “The Draconian Code is written in blood,” one Greek orator declared, and Plutarch observed that under Draco’s code “for nearly all crimes there is the penalty of death.” They referred to the severe laws—now largely lost— codified and promulgated by the Athenian legislator Draco about 621 b.c. Draco was the first to collect Athens’s unwrit- ten laws, but his assignment wasn’t to modify them and he is therefore not really responsible for their proverbial harshness. The written Draconian Code proved valuable because it sub- stituted public justice for vendettas and made it impossible for magistrates to side openly with the nobility. Its severity may have been exaggerated by future generations. Draco’s laws, except for those dealing with homicide, were abolished or ameliorated by the wise Solon 30 years later, but they were so harsh, or thought to be so harsh, that the word draconian remains a synonym for “severe” and draconian laws still means any code of laws or set of rules calling for ironhanded punishment of violators.
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