Cleobulus
historical figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages
Cleobulus of Lindos · Cleobulus the wise man · our uncle
spoken of as
1 expressionin the texts
Stromata
Wise man and monarch of the Lindians, father of the daughter who washed guests' feet.
And the daughter of Cleobulus the wise man and monarch of the Lindians was not ashamed to wash the feet of her father's guests;
Thales of Miletus, Bias of Priene, Pittacus of Mitylene, and Cleobulus of Lindos;
Didymus assigns it to Solon, just as he assigns to Cleobulus the "Measure is best.
On the Embassy
Aeschines' maternal uncle, son of Glaucus of Acharnae, associated with Demaenetus in a naval victory.
while our mother’s brother, our uncle Cleobulus, the son of Glaucus of the deme Acharnae, was with Demaenetus of the family of the Buzygae, when he won the naval victory over Cheilon the Lacedaemonian admiral.
Orations
Youth beloved by Anacreon, named in his prayer to Dionysus.
Be a good counselor to Cleobulus, O Dionysus, and grant that he accept my love.
History of the Peloponnesian War
One of the Spartan ephors most eager to break up the treaty with Athens; secretly urges the Boeotians and Corinthians toward alliance with Argos.
on their departing homeward, Cleobulus and Xenares—those of the ephors who most wished to break up the treaty—held a private conference with the Boeotians and Corinthians, advising them to pursue as far as possible the same policy;
For the Boeotarchs did not tell them of what had taken place at Lacedaemon, namely, that Cleobulus and Xenares, amongst the ephors, and their friends, advised them first to enter into alliance with the Argives and Corinthians, and then to join the Lacedaemonians;