# REDIRECT Draco ( lawgiver )# Council of Four Hundred

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.

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by Draco in about 621 BC: the death penalty was applied for a particularly wide range of crimes, though Solon later repealed Draco's code and published new laws, retaining only Draco's homicide statutes.

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

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.

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.

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

* Blagging: No player may seize any part of an opponent's broom to slow or hinder the player ( Draco Malfoy commits this foul in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, thus preventing Harry from seizing the Snitch ).

* Astoria Greengrass, the wife of Draco Malfoy from the Harry Potter series

The Latin word draco, as in constellation Draco, comes directly from Greek δράκων, ( drákōn, gazer ).

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.

After being cast as Draco Malfoy he has subsequently appeared in all eight Harry Potter films, from 2001 to 2011.

Tianlongza 天龍座 " Heavenly Dragon Seat / Constellation " is the Chinese translation of Draco ( from Latin " Dragon "), a constellation near the North Celestial Pole.

The Kzinti reappear in the comic The Wristwatch Plantation, also by Niven ( and which included the Bebebebeque from his Draco Tavern stories ).

Tracy is the daughter and only child of Draco who believes the only way to save his daughter from further suicide attempts is for Bond to marry her.

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

* Draco ( physician ) ( from Greek: Δράκων ), the name of several physicians in the family of Hippocrates

* Antares Draco, an Imperial Knight from Star Wars: Legacy

* Draco Centauros, a dragon-like humanoid from the Puyo Puyo video game series

* Draco, a 9 / 9 Artifact Dragon from the card game Magic: The Gathering

Draconian is an adjective meaning great severity, that derives from Draco, an Athenian law scribe under whom small offences had heavy punishments ( Draconian laws ).

MAGIC did not observe cosmic rays resulting from dark matter decays in the dwarf galaxy Draco.

After destroying the nearby Confederate outpost, Eberhardt revealed his plans to Argus: " he " would have to construct and protect a portal to Titan, from which additional help in the form of Draco, leader of Outlive-3 and his minions will emerge.

Draco reveals he got the idea from Hermione's DA coins, which were themselves inspired by Lord Voldemort's use of the Dark Mark to communicate with his Death Eaters.

In the sixth book, Half-Blood Prince, Draco uses it when leaving the Room of Requirement, escaping from Ron and a few of Dumbledore's Army members after using Peruvian Instant Darkness Powder.

* 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.

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 ').

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.

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

Mirabeau prevailed against the measure, which he referred to as " worthy of being placed in the code of Draco ".

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 the 2005 film Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, New College Cloisters served as the Hogwarts background for some scenes, notably that in which Draco Malfoy is transformed into a ferret by Mad-Eye Moody.

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.

* In the Harry Potter series, a Hand of Glory appears twice, once in The Chamber of Secrets ( for sale ) and again in The Half-Blood Prince ( in the possession of Draco Malfoy ), as an object which grants illumination only to its holder.

He is best known for playing the role of Draco Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series, the film adaptations of the best-selling Harry Potter fantasy novels by author J. K. Rowling, for which he auditioned at age twelve.

The constellation Draco has the appearance of guarding and encircling the northern pole which is the centre of the movement of the fixed stars.

* NGC 5866 in the constellation Draco ( which may also be M102 )

Also, the source code of Draco ( which is itself written in Draco ) is now also available at Aminet.

The photometer points to a field in the northern constellations of Cygnus, Lyra and Draco, which is well out of the ecliptic plane, so that sunlight never enters the photometer as the spacecraft orbits the Sun.

Through this action Draco hoped to earn a place in his namesake constellation, which is a heaven for dragons who prove their worth.

At the heart of the story is a doomed romance which defies the social norms and sparks a growing confrontation with Chrysagon's brother, Draco, played by Guy Stockwell.

Because of this, Draco is largely controlled by the upper class, which retains strong cultural and economic ties to Earth.

The Dacian Draco was the standard and ensign of troops of the ancient Eastern European Dacian people, which can be seen in the hands of the soldiers of Decebalus in several scenes depicted on Trajan's Column in Rome, Italy.

The narrative spans from the Migration Period (" Dark Ages "), when the Germanic tribes fought incessantly among themselves for territory ; to the heroic Early Middle Ages with the rise of Charlemagne (" Draco the Great ") and conflicts with Viking raiders (" porpoises "); through the Renaissance ( Erasmus ); and up to the modern era with motor cars ; and even into a future time in which a thriving high-tech civilization is destroyed by a campaign of terrorist bombings, and everything begins again in an endless cycle.

The species is also based on the cowbird and the cuckoo, which lay their eggs in other birds ' nests, and Draco, a genus of gliding lizards.

Dragons are a genus of reptiles which apparently evolved from a group of Draco lunaris on the Disc's Moon.

* In the Harry Potter stories, Draco Malfoy and his father are notorious for their sinister sneers, which represent these characters ' sense of entitlement over and contempt for those judged lacking in monetary, power, or family status.