solon

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The Word of the Day for January 27 is: 

solon   \SOH-lun\   noun
          1 : a wise and skillful lawgiver
    *2 : a member of a legislative body

Example sentence:
          "The bill will likely look quite different by the time the solons in Congress are through with it," the
pundit remarked.

Did you know?
          Solon was a particularly wise lawgiver in ancient Athens who was born in approximately 630 B.C. and lived
until about 560 B.C. He was one of the Seven Wise Men of Greece, and he implemented a number of reforms in
Athenian law. In English, his name has been used generically since at least 1625 to refer to any wise
statesman. Contemporary American journalists, with whom the term is especially popular, have extended
the meaning even further to include any member of a lawmaking body, wise or not. In fact, today the word is
sometimes used ironically for a legislator who displays a marked lack of wisdom, rather than a profusion
of it.

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