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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.


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Cleobulus, one of the seven wise men, was a native of Lindus.

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

He is apparently rebuking Cleobulus of Lindus in Rhodes for an arrogant epigraph inscribed upon some stelé.

Cleobulus, however, as well as his son Philaritus, is in fact purely Arcadian in character.

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

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