Cleinias
historical figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
Cleinias, the son of Cleidicus
in the texts
De legendis gentilium libris
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.
Against Eubulides
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.
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.
) Take, please, also the deposition of Cleinias and that of his relatives;
Symposium
Beautiful beloved who dominates Critobulus' imagination and serves as the occasion for discussion of erotic passion.
For as it is, I would rather gaze at Cleinias than at all the other beautiful objects in the world.
and I should take more delight in being a slave than in being a free man, if Cleinias would deign to be my master.
it does look to me—to speak confidentially—as if he had also kissed Cleinias;