A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology

Smith, William

A Dictionary of Greek and Roman biography and mythology. William Smith, LLD, ed. 1890

(Κλεώνυμος).

1. An Athenian, who is frequently attacked by Aristophanes as a pestilent demagogue, of burly stature, gluttonous, perjured, and cowardly. (Aristoph. Ach. 88, 809, Eq. 953, 1290, 1369, Nub. 352, 399, 663, &c., Vesp. 19, 592, 822, Pax, 438, 656, 1261, Av. 289, 1475; comp. Ael. VH 1.27.)