Chilon

American  

[kahy-lon] / ˈkaɪ lɒn /

Also Chilo

noun

1. flourished 556 b.c., Greek sage and ephor at Sparta.

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Example Sentences

In the early 3rd century, biographer Diogenes Laërtius attributed the phrase “do not speak ill of the dead” to philosopher Chilon of Sparta, later popularized in Latin as De mortuis nihil nisi bonum.

From Washington Post • Aug. 28, 2018

"Ouchey August 3d 1869 "We went to the castle of Chilon by steam and row boat.

From Time Magazine Archive

The wish that South Carolina had been scuttled is the wish of Chilon for Cythera.

From The Creed of the Old South 1865-1915 by Gildersleeve, Basil L. (Basil Lanneau)

According to Chilon, the great virtue of man was prudence, or well-grounded judgment as to future events.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

Of these was Thales of Miletus, Pittacus of Mytilene, Bias the Prienean, and our own Solon, Cleobulus the Lindian, and Myson of Chen, and the seventh among them was called Chilon, a Lacedaemonian.

From Plato and Platonism by Pater, Walter