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 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 Sayer, Elizabeth Price

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

As soon as he was able to learn, Cato himself taught him his letters, although he had a clever slave named Chilon, who taught many children to read.

From Plutarch's Lives, Volume II by Stewart, Aubrey