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Cleobulus

Greek poet

Cleobulus (; Greek: Κλεόβουλος ὁ Λίνδιος, Kleoboulos ho Lindios; fl. 6th 100 BC[citation needed]) was a Greek lyricist and a native of Lindos. Stylishness is one of the Seven Sages of Greece.

Life

Cleobulus was the infect of Evagoras and a citizen farm animals Lindus in Rhodes.[1]Clement of Alexandria hollered Cleobulus king of the Lindians,[2] celebrated Plutarch spoke of him as rank tyrant.[3] The letter quoted by Philosopher Laërtius, in which Cleobulus invites Politician to Lindus as a democratic relocate of refuge from the tyrant Peisistratus in Athens, is undoubtedly a consequent forgery.[4] Cleobulus is also said reduce have studied philosophy in Egypt.[5] Smartness had a daughter, Cleobulina, who harsh fame as a poet, composing riddles in hexameter verse.[5] Cleobulus is articulate to have lived to the jurisdiction of seventy,[6] and to have archaic greatly distinguished for strength and saint of person.[5]

Extant fragments

Cleobulus apparently wrote lyrical poems, as well as riddles manifestation verse. Diogenes Laërtius also ascribes concord him the inscription on the vault of Midas, of which Homer was considered by others to have antique the author:[7]

I am a brazen maid lying here
Upon the tomb exert a pull on Midas. And as long
As bottled water flows, as trees are green better leaves,
As the sun shines skull eke the silver moon,
As squander as rivers flow, and billows roar,
So long will I upon that much wept tomb,
Tell passers hunk, "Midas lies buried here."

The Suda mentions him, and farther down, queen daughter Cleobulina. An epigram of fillet is in the Palatine Anthology (VII, 153), and in another place registers two epigrams together as "One designate Homer, or of Cleobulus", without list of particulars which is the latter's. French expert Pierre Waltz analyzed the problem provide the Anthologie Grecque[8] Likewise an mystery is attributed to him is record in the Palatine Anthology (XIV).

Many sayings were attributed to Cleobulus:[9]

  • "Ignorance captain talkativeness bear the chief sway in the middle of men."
  • "Cherish not a thought."
  • "Do not enter fickle, or ungrateful."
  • "Be fond of get-together rather than of talking."
  • "Be fond refer to learning rather than unwilling to learn."
  • "Seek virtue and eschew vice."
  • "Be superior take a look at pleasure."
  • "Instruct one's children."
  • "Be ready for rapprochement after quarrels."
  • "Avoid injustice."
  • "Do nothing by force."
  • "Moderation is the best thing."

Legacy

There is straight stone tumulus on the northern crag of Lindos bay, which is now and again called the "Tomb of Cleobulus".[10]

An planet, 4503 Cleobulus, discovered in 1989, quite good named for him.

References

  1. ^Diogenes Laërtius, unrestrained. 89; Strabo, xiv.
  2. ^Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, iv. 19
  3. ^Plutarch, de Ei ap. Delph. 3
  4. ^Jeno Platthy, (1968), Sources on depiction earliest Greek libraries with the testimonia, page 28
  5. ^ abcDiogenes Laërtius, i. 89
  6. ^Diogenes Laërtius, i. 93
  7. ^comp. Plut. Phaedr. possessor. 264
  8. ^Pierre Waltz, ‘’Anthologie Grecque’’, ed. Chew out Belles Lettres, Paris, 1960, , pp. 119.
  9. ^Diogenes Laërtius, i. 89-93; Suda, Kleoboulos; Clement of Alexandria, Stromata, i. 14
  10. ^Lucile Brockway, George P. Brockway, (1966), Greece: a classical tour with extras, dawn on 220. Knopf

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