Originally the axones recorded laws enacted by Draco in the late 7th Century ( traditionally 621 BC ).

By the 7th century BC social unrest had become widespread, and the Areopagus appointed Draco to draft a strict new code of law ( hence the word ' draconian ').

A citizens ' assembly ( the Ecclesia ), for the discussion of city policy, had existed since the reforms of Draco in 621 BC ; all citizens were permitted to attend after the reforms of Solon ( early 6th century ), but the poorest citizens could not address the assembly or run for office.

* Unctuous Osbert ( late 18th century ) – controversially considered a " puppet " in the hands of Septimus Malfoy, one of Draco Malfoy's ancestors.

In 621 BC a scribe named Draco codified the cruel oral laws of the city-state of Athens ; this code prescribed the death penalty for many offences ( nowadays very severe rules are often called " Draconian ").

A further example comes from Ancient Greece, where the Athenian legal system was first written down by Draco in about 621 BC: the death penalty was applied for a particularly wide range of crimes, though Solon later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.

During the 39th Olympiad, in 622 or 621 BC, Draco established the legal code with which he is identified.

Aristotle specifies that Draco laid down his legal code in the archonship of Aristaechmus ( Ἀρισταίχμος ) in 620 or 621 BC.

On the other hand, Thuban in the constellation Draco, which was the pole star in 3000 BC, is much less conspicuous at magnitude 3. 67 ( one-fifth as bright as Polaris ); today it is invisible in light-polluted urban skies.

In 3000 BC the faint star Thuban in the constellation Draco was the North Star.

* Instead of oral laws known to a special class, arbitrarily applied and interpreted, all laws were written, thus made known to all literate citizens ( who could make appeal to the Areopagus for injustices ): "... the constitution formed under Draco, when the first code of laws was drawn up.

His name in Latinised form was Franciscus Draco ( Francis the Dragon ).

According to Galen, a later physician, Polybus was Hippocrates ' true successor, while Thessalus and Draco each had a son named Hippocrates.

Harry Potter character Narcissa Malfoy, the mother of Draco Malfoy, was named after Narcissus, and was described as being incredibly vain and arrogant.

With his brothers-in-law, Thessalus and Draco, he was one of the founders of the Dogmatic school of medicine.

As he was finishing the record, the singer was contacted by FIFA to write a song for the 1998 World Cup ; Martin subsequently wrote " La Copa de la Vida " with K. C. Porter and Draco Rosa.

Perhaps the distinctions between dragons of western origin and Chinese dragons are arbitrary, since the later Roman dragon was certainly of Iranian origin: in the Roman Empire, where each military cohort had a particular identifying signum, ( military standard ), after the Parthian and Dacian Wars of Trajan in the east, the Dacian Draco military standard entered the Legion with the Cohors Sarmatarum and Cohors Dacorum ( Sarmatian and Dacian cohorts )— a large dragon fixed to the end of a lance, with large gaping jaws of silver and with the rest of the body formed of colored silk.

The city lost even its ancient and original name that was forgotten, named Porto Leone by the Venetians in 1317, meaning ' Lion's Port ' from the Piraeus Lion standing at the harbour's entrance, and Porto Draco by the Franks.

It was anciently the chief river of the Levant, also called Draco, Typhon and Axius.

Numerous synonyms were used to make oblique reference to the stone, such as " white stone " ( calculus albus, identified with the calculus candidus of Revelation 2: 17 which was taken as a symbol of the glory of heaven ), vitriol ( as expressed in the backronym Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem ), also lapis noster, lapis occultus, in water at the box, and numerous oblique, mystical or mythological references such as Adam, Aer, Animal, Alkahest, Antidotus, Antimonium, Aqua benedicta, Aqua volans per aeram, Arcanum, Atramentum, Autumnus, Basilicus, Brutorum cor, Bufo, Capillus, Capistrum auri, Carbones, Cerberus, Chaos, Cinis cineris, Crocus, Dominus philosophorum, Divine quintessence, Draco elixir, Filius ignis, Fimus, Folium, Frater, Granum, Granum frumenti, Haematites, Hepar, Herba, Herbalis, Lac, Melancholia, Ovum philosophorum, Panacea salutifera, Pandora, Phoenix, Philosophic mercury, Pyrites, Radices arboris solares, Regina, Rex regum, Sal metallorum, Salvator terrenus, Talcum, Thesaurus, Ventus hermetis.

" Actor Mel Welles was scheduled to play a character named " Draco Cardala ", Jonathan Haze was scheduled to play " Archie Aroma ," and Jack Nicholson would have played a character named " Jocko ".

On this map Ursa Minor is an old woman and three maidens, Draco is four camels and Cepheus was illustrated as a shepherd with sheep and dog.

It was named by Fyodor Dus-Chotimirsky in 1901, who noticed a resemblance between Black's kingside pawn structure ( pawns on d6, e7, f7, g6 and h7 ) and the stars of the Draco constellation.

Draco was a shareware programming language for CP / M and the Amiga, created by Chris Gray in the early 1980s, and discontinued sometime around 1990.

Draco, a blend of Pascal, C and ALGOL 68, was a strongly typed language most notable for its ability to produce small, optimized executables, and for the compiler's ability to work in very limited memory spaces.

Another co-writer was Martin's former Menudo bandmate Draco Rosa.

During the storyline " The Draco ", Abyss appeared very similar to Nightcrawler, though he was depicted as being the age of a young teenage boy.

Harry receives a Nimbus 2000 during his first year so that he can play for Gryffindor ; Lucius Malfoy buys a full set of the more advanced Nimbus 2001s for the Slytherin team in exchange for choosing his son Draco as Seeker the following year.

They had their first child on September 7, 2010, a boy they named Draco.

* Draco ( lawgiver ) ( from Greek: Δράκων ), the first lawgiver of ancient Athens, Greece, from whom the term draconian is derived

The album was the first to earn Draco international recognition beyond Latin America, becoming widely popular in Europe.

It was first mentioned in Chamber of Secrets, when Draco and his father, Lucius Malfoy, visited Borgin & Burkes.

The star pattern of the constellation Draco fits with fair precision to the Serpent Mound, with the ancient Pole Star, Thuban ( α Draconis ), at its geographical center within the first of seven coils from the head.

Then in 1994 he went to drive in the European Formula Opel championship, winning the title in his first year for the Draco Junior Team.

The story of the first game, Heavy Gear, followed the crew of the CNCS landship ( an enormous hovercraft carrier ), ' Vigilance ' as they played a cat-and-mouse game across the Badlands with a rival landship from the AST, the ' Draco '.

Not only did constellations like Draco, Cepheus, and Cassiopeia spin circles around the pole, but stars which were not circumpolar rose and set at the same place on the horizon each night.

Some modern proposals for new constellations were not successful ; an example is Quadrans, eponymous of the Quadrantid meteors, now divided between Boötes and Draco.

Apart from the inscriptions very little is known about Draco ’ s background or the nature of most of his laws.

Draco introduced the lot-chosen Council of Four Hundred ( in reality, 401 )— distinct from the Areopagus — which evolved in later constitutions to play a large role in Athenian democracy.

Aristotle notes that Draco, while having the laws written, merely legislated for an existing unwritten Athenian constitution, such as setting exact qualifications for eligibility for office.

Draco extended the franchise to all free men who could furnish themselves with a set of military equipment.

The two sons of Hippocrates, Thessalus and Draco, and his son-in-law, Polybus, were his students.

* The Milky Way's satellite system consists of Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy, Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud, Canis Major Dwarf, Ursa Minor Dwarf, Draco Dwarf, Carina Dwarf, Sextans Dwarf, Sculptor Dwarf, Fornax Dwarf, Leo I, Leo II, and Ursa Major I Dwarf and Ursa Major II Dwarf.

Beginning at the north, Lyra is bordered by Draco, Hercules, Vulpecula, and Cygnus.

The Draco Tavern series of short stories take place in a more light-hearted science fiction universe, and are told from the point of view of the proprietor of an omni-species bar.

Their identity has not survived but based on calculations these are believed to have been α and κ in Draco and β in Ursa Minor.

Around the same time he restored the colony of Galeria along the Via Portuensis, while also establishing a new colony, called Draco, along the left bank of the Tiber River, some eleven miles from Rome along the Via Ostiensis.

Thuban also known by its Bayer designation Alpha Draconis ( α Draconis, α Dra ) is a star ( or star system ) in the constellation of Draco.

The NGC 5866 | Spindle Galaxy ( NGC 5866 ), a lenticular galaxy with a prominent dust lane in the Draco ( constellation ) | constellation of Draco.

This assumption is supported by the fact that the Dacian standard, the Dacian Draco, had a wolf head.

( Draco Malfoy breaks this rule in Prisoner of Azkaban by grabbing Harry's broomtail to stop him from seizing the Snitch.