Cleobulus

[ klee-oh-byoo-luhs, klee-uh-, klee-ob-yuh-luhs ]

noun

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

Example Sentences

Such was the experience of Anacreon with Smerdis, and Cleobulus with Badyllus.

From Project Gutenberg

Fortunately for the calumniated cause of Paganism, we have data, chronological and historical, to show that the science of ethics was not only perfectly known to the ancients, but that the few really good things which are to be found in the New Testament, were borrowed from what is called "the divine philosophy of the ancients;" or the moral maxims of Pythagoras, Thales, Solon, Bias, Pittacus, Chilo, Cleobulus, Periander, and many others, who lived full 500 years before the Christian era.

From Project Gutenberg

Optimus est, Cleobulus ait, modus, incola Lindi; ex Ephyra, Periandre, doces cuncta emeditanda; tempus nosce inquit Mitylenis Pittacus ortus; plures esse malos Bias autumat ille Prieneus; Milesiusque Thales sponsori damna minatur; 5 nosce inquit tete Chilon Lacedaemone cretus; Cecropiusque Solon ne quid nimis induperabit.

From Project Gutenberg

Cleobulus also was a Heraclide, according to Diog.

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As early as the seventh century before the Christian era, Cleobulus, one of the seven sages of Greece, insisted that maidens should have the same intellectual training as youths, and illustrated his doctrine in the careful education of his daughter, Cleobuline, who became a poetess of wide renown.

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