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

The first of them had the name of Solon, the second Chilon, the third Periander, the fourth Talus, the fifth Cleobulus, the sixth Bias, the seventh Pittacus.

From The Banquet (Il Convito) by Elizabeth Price Sayer

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

Of the genuine Anacreon we possess more numerous and longer fragments, and the names of his favourites, Cleobulus, Smerdies, Leucaspis, are famous.

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

Cleobulus, one of the seven sages of Greece; friend of Plato; wrote lyrics and riddles in verse, 530 B.C.

From The Nuttall Encyclopædia Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge by P. Austin Nuttall

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

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

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