Cleobulus

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[klee-oh-byoo-luhs, klee-uh-, klee-ob-yuh-luhs] / ˌkli oʊˈbju ləs, ˌkli ə-, kliˈɒb jə ləs /

noun

1. flourished 560 b.c., Greek sage and lyric poet, a native and tyrant of Lindus, Rhodes.

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Cleobulus

Fifthly, Cleobulus said, If he trust none of his courtiers.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Fifthly, Cleobulus said, Where the rulers fear reproof and shame more than the law.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

Cleobulus said, That in which the master is more beloved than feared.

From Complete Works of Plutarch — Volume 3: Essays and Miscellanies by Plutarch

After receiving these instructions for their governments from Xenares and Cleobulus and their friends at Lacedaemon, the Boeotians and Corinthians departed.

From The History of the Peloponnesian War by Richard Crawley

The following may be selected:— "Cleobulus I love, for Cleobulus I am mad, Cleobulus I watch and worship with my gaze."

From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by John Addington Symonds

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