Cleinias · Atlas

in the texts

EuthydemusClassical · Greek

Young son of Axiochus, admired by many suitors, whom Socrates brings forward as the subject the sophists should exhort toward wisdom and virtue.

Cleinias agreed.

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Among the goods.

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Surely not, Socrates.

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De legendis gentilium librisLate Antiquity · Greek

Disciple of Pythagoras cited as an exemplar of refusing to swear oaths.

When he might by an oath have escaped a fine of three talents, he paid it rather than swear, and that when he would have sworn truly—having heard, it seems to me, the command that forbids us the oath.

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Against EubulidesClassical · Greek

The son of Cleidicus, nursed by the speaker's mother during a period of poverty; the source of the opponents' slander that she had been a servile nurse.

) Take, please, also the deposition of Cleinias and that of his relatives;

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Some time after this, when by now two children had been born to her, she was compelled at a time when my father was absent on military service with Thrasybulus and she herself was in hard straits, to take Cleinias, the son of Cleidicus, to nurse.

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Alcibiades 1Classical · Greek

Alcibiades's father, named when Socrates formally identifies Alcibiades by patronymic.

Alcibiades, the son of Cleinias, it seems, neither had nor has any lover except one only, and that a cherished one, Socrates, the son of Sophroniscus and Phaenarete.

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ProtagorasClassical · Greek

The younger brother of Alcibiades, placed under Pericles' guardianship and educated by Ariphron.

Or, if you like, there is Cleinias, the younger brother of Alcibiades here, whom this same Pericles, acting as his guardian, and fearing lie might be corrupted, I suppose, by Alcibiades, carried off from his brother and placed in Ariphron’s family to be educated:

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SymposiumClassical · Greek

Beautiful beloved who dominates Critobulus' imagination and serves as the occasion for discussion of erotic passion.

Of course, was Critobulus’s reply;

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Aren’t you ever going to get your mind off Cleinias?

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Would you not entrust the arbitrament to Cleinias, Socrates?

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