CLEOBULUS  , one of the Seven Sages of

Greece, a native and tyrant of Lindus in Rhodes . He was distinguished for his strength and his handsome person, for the wisdom of his sayings, the acuteness of his riddles and the beauty of his lyric poetry . Diogenes Laertius quotes a letter in which Cleobulus invites Solon to take refuge with him against Peisistratus; and this would imply that he was alive in 56o B.C . He is said to have held advanced views as to female education, and he was the father of the wise Cleobuline, whose riddles were not less famous than his own (Diogenes Laertius i . 89-93) . See F . G . Mullach, Fragmenta Philosophorum Graecorum, i . CLEOMENES (KXeo7dv is), the name of three Spartan kings of the Agiad line .