Meaning of Drako | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Alternative spelling of Draco (“Athenian lawgiver”).
   alt-of, alternative
2. A male given name, variant of Draco.

Examples

“Drako was the first Thesmothet who was called upon to set⟳ down his Thesmoi in writing, and thus to invest⟳ them essentially with a character of more or less generality.”

“Wrong and oppression at last⟳ aroused the spirit of opposition in the growing multitude of the lower classes, who began to resist⟳ the severity of the written law, and of the code of Drako.”

“Within a decade of the Kylon affair, the first Athenian lawcode was written down by Drako, no doubt⟳ largely in response to the growing political unrest.”

“And that day one of the boys, Drako, gave Theras a spear—a great token of friendship.”

“My name⟳ is Drako and I am the leader of this Haven.”

“Meanwhile, the new prince Karadja was succeeded in his employment as dragoman of the Porte by Michalaki Drako Lazzo, who had acted at Istanbul as the agent of the deposed Ipsilanti. He was the brother of Drako, who was beheaded, in the same employment, during the Turco-Russian war of 1768-74.”

“Drako was a four-armed Codru-Ji and one of the fastest racers on the planet.”

“We will also be welcoming three of my nephew-in-law’s cousins from Moscow—Princes Drako, Lykos, and Gunter Kazanov.”

“In Drako Alexandre’s lifetime, lust had worn many masks—fair and sweet, dark and exotic, male and female—but whatever form⟳ it took, it always, without fail⟳, seized its prey.”

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