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Zaleucus

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Zaleucus (zəl`kəs), fl. c.650 B.C., Greek lawgiver of Locris, in Italy. According to tradition, his was the earliest codification of Greek law. References to Zaleucus' code, which was widely adopted in Italy, indicate that it embodied the lex talionis [law of retaliation, i.e., an eye for an eye] and other severe features exemplified in the later Greek code of Draco Draco (drā`kō) or Dracon
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Zaleucus was the legislator of the Western Locrians, as was Charondas, the Catanean, of his own cities, and those also in Italy and Sicily which belonged to the Calcidians.
Minos, we learn, was the primitive founder of the government of Crete, as Zaleucus was of that of the Locrians.
 
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