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Brewer's: Draconian Code
One very severe. Draco was an Athenian law-maker. As every violation of a law was made in this code a capital offence, Demades the orator said “that Draco's code was written in human blood.”
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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