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Cleobulus (; Greek: Κλεόβουλος ὁ Λίνδιος, Kleoboulos ho Lindios; fl. 6th century BC) was a Greek poet and a native of Lindos. He is one of the Seven Sages of Greece.

Life

Cleobulus was the son of Evagoras and a citizen of Lindus in Rhodes.

Clement of Alexandria called Cleobulus king of the Lindians, and Plutarch spoke of him as the tyrant.

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The letter quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, in which Cleobulus invites Solon to Lindus as a democratic place of refuge from the tyrant Peisistratus in Athens, is undoubtedly a later forgery. Cleobulus is also said to have studied philosophy in Egypt.

He had a daughter, Cleobulina, who found fame as a poet, composing riddles in hexameter verse. Cleobulus is said to have lived to the age of seventy, and to have been greatly distinguished for strength and beauty of person.

Extant fragments

Cleobulus apparently wrote lyric poems, as well as riddles in verse.

Diogenes Laërtius also ascribes to him the inscription on the